Bug#155202: apt: Apt's memory requirements are by far too heavy
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: important
Hello,
I've upgraded my 486 from potato to woody lately. I have 8 Mb of ram,
which is ok for what I have to do with the computer.
Apt 0.3.x from potato ran just well on it. Apt 0.5.4, however
freezes there: "Reading packages lists: 92%". Not only apt is freezing,
but the whole computer too, and a reboot is needed. It doesn't seems to use
the swap partition at all. As a result I now have to download each and
every file manually and install them with "dpkg -i". Apt is completely
unusable in this actual state.
I wish I have kept a copy of the now unavailable apt 0.3
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux linux486 2.2.21 #1 Thu Aug 1 18:40:29 EDT 2002 i586
Locale: LANG=fr_CA, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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