Re: [Hampshire] problem involving Synaptic and Aptitude

2009/3/8 Lisi <hantslug@???>:
> Recently PCLinuxOS 2007 had a very large update to get ready for PCLOS 2009.
> (PCLinuxOS has rolling updates).  Using Synaptic, the update stalled.    It
> appears to me that the problem may be that it is downloading almost a Gb of
> data into 512 MB of RAM. (1)  The results from Synaptic are consistent and
> reproduceable.
>

I doubt it's the volume of the packages themselves that's the problem,
probably more to do with the quantity of them and the complexity of
the dependencies. Of course that _shouldn't_ happen, but *shrug*.

> [root@Dunhurst lisi]# aptitude update

Shouldn't that be dist-upgrade?

Cheers,
Al.