[Bug 883752] Re: Software Centre is the most horrible, bloated and slow application I have ever used.

[Alessandro Menti]

Could you please try to install an application using the terminal
(choose an application you wish and install it with the command "sudo
apt-get install appname" where "appname" is the name of the package
containing the application), just to make sure that the Software Center
itself is the main cause of the problem (and not just an
unresponsiveness caused by the Debian package infrastructure that
handles installation)?

Please tell me if you notice any differences in time and, if possible,
list here the complete configuration of your system (CPU, amount of RAM,
swap size...).

If there is no noticeable difference in time, you may want to try
installing the apt-xapian-index package - basically, it replaces the
text file handling mechanism used by dpkg to fetch and query package
information with a more efficient database one. Be wary that the program
may consume resources when it's translating the traditional package
lists to the database format; searches in the Software Center should be
faster, though.

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Title:
  Software Centre is the most horrible, bloated and slow application I
  have ever used.

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The title explains it all.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 5.0.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.21-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  CheckboxSubmission: c8f492d129becc27db8b0d9223313dfc
  CheckboxSystem: b845c366ea09c60efa3a45c1b5b21525
  Date: Sun Oct 30 07:31:55 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-14 (15 days ago)

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