Andreas van dem Helge wrote:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andreas van dem Helge
Date: Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:40 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Installing stuff takes forever To: Kai Ponte On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Kai Ponte
wrote: I just went to install some rpm files (for TuxPaint) and was concerned.
Every time I clicked on the rpm file (in Konqueror) I was told to install wtih yast. I dutifilyy gave my password and then had to wait several minutes while various cache files were updated before each would install.
Correct. The package management sytem in OpenSuSE is currently, and historically has been, painfully slow.
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