Comments on: Brain fart with Apt http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/10/13/brain-fart-with-apt/ babblings of a computer loving fool Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:52:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jrwren http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/10/13/brain-fart-with-apt/comment-page-1/#comment-29883 jrwren Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:02:15 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/10/13/brain-fart-with-apt/#comment-29883 Thanks! I love that you are one of the few people who read the man pages more thoroughly than me! :) Thanks!

I love that you are one of the few people who read the man pages more thoroughly than me! :)

]]> By: Prototyped http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/10/13/brain-fart-with-apt/comment-page-1/#comment-29882 Prototyped Mon, 15 Oct 2007 06:35:06 +0000 http://jrwren.wrenfam.com/blog/2007/10/13/brain-fart-with-apt/#comment-29882 It's easiest to do sudo apt-get install pidgin gaim- The - after gaim indicates that you want to uninstall it. It won't run concurrently, but then most of the time spent by apt is reading its "database" (really thousands of files in /var/lib/dpkg/info), so adding a second concurrent apt command would, even with finer-grained locking, only serve to slow things down. (Perhaps the next-generation apt and dpkg ought to use BerkeleyDB or SQLite or similar instead of treating the filesystem as a database.) It’s easiest to do

sudo apt-get install pidgin gaim-

The – after gaim indicates that you want to uninstall it. It won’t run concurrently, but then most of the time spent by apt is reading its “database” (really thousands of files in /var/lib/dpkg/info), so adding a second concurrent apt command would, even with finer-grained locking, only serve to slow things down. (Perhaps the next-generation apt and dpkg ought to use BerkeleyDB or SQLite or similar instead of treating the filesystem as a database.)

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