synaptic reload takes forever

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:30:30 -0700
Brendan Miller <catphive at catphive.net> wrote:

> Downloading and installing packages works in a reasonable amount of
> time, but reloading takes at least an hour, and synaptic completely
> freazes up during that time.
> 
> I launch from the terminal I get output like this:
> Convert: tslib 1.0-7
> Convert: unixodbc 2.2.11-16
> Convert: wine 1.0.1-2
> Error: Binary / source version mismatch, skipping.
> Convert: xaw3d 1.5+E-17
> Convert: xft 2.1.13-3
> Convert: zlib 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-13
> Error: Binary / source version mismatch, skipping.
> Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/main Sources
> Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/contrib Sources
> Get: http://ftp.debian.org sid/non-free Sources
> Convert: acl 2.2.47-2
> Convert: alsa-lib 1.0.20-2
> Convert: arts 1.5.9-3
> Convert: atk1.0 1.26.0-1
> Convert: at-spi 1.26.0-1
> Convert: attr 1:2.4.43-2
> 
> 
> Between each convert message there's like a 20 second delay. What they
> hell is it doing?
> 
> Brendan

Probably wondering where your Ubuntu repositories are?

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
When Windows are opened the bugs come in.
	Winduhs