Notices

For some time i've been facing a problem with HAM and FAPMAN beeing insanely slow and almost every time returning an error (usually FAPMAN returned an error about being blocked from by another app). I can;t find a solution to that and since it's the way to install apps I need it to stop. Any feedback will be helpful.

I found App Manager in particular was a lot quicker after I changed swappiness from the default 100 to something a bit saner! I did it 'manually' but Swappolube would appear to be a handy app to achieve the same result.

It's a lot faster to use apt-get in xterm, running as root. And you get instructive error messages that way.

If you don't know much about apt-get you can start by running apt-get help as root and reading the info you get.

The problem is that I use HAM/FAPMAN to search for interesting apps so apt-get won't do the thing.

Actually you can:

FAPMAN will be blocked if HAM is running - bear in mind that when HAM updates the catalogues and checks for newer versions in the repos it can be a background task when you first tether to an internet connection - during this time the process will be locked so FAPMAN cannot access it.

I'm usually just swiping through the catalouges not looking for something in particular .

The problem is that BOTH HAM and FAPMAN are slow. If one worked I'd just use it.

Then you'd be best off to use neither one of them and use the shell instead.

Terminal;

á la 9000 - merci beaucoup mon ami.

Well I'd rather have the problem fixed than skipp around it since that's not the way it should be.

-Grow time-window of rolling timed 24h automatic update check interval (use google or forums power search for this)
-What repositories you have enabled in Fapman?
--Disable ones that you think that you do not need
-Be specific on how it´s slow? What is slow?
--Is it slow on downloading stuff or is list scrolling slow or what is slow?
-Check log files of fapman (from up-menu)

And last but not least. Default App manager is slow. Nothing what you can do with it. Just don´t use it. We have Fapman that is much more advanced.

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Also please remember that commands that Switch_ just introduced gives you THE fastest way of 1. updating repositorie lists 2. Upgrading already installed apps and 3. searching and then installing apps. For minimum "zero" level try those commands and if it still "feels" slow then there is nothing that you can do. Of course you can install apps without first refreshing repositories.

btw. To use search from CLI
apt-cache --names-only search <yourkeywordhere>
Does search from downloaded repository list and check keyword only from package name, otherwise it checks full description.