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  1. Bug #398870
  2. Comment #14

Comment 14 for bug 398870

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Graham Poulter (grahampo) wrote :

#12 (Phillip Weissenbacher's) solution worked for me! -

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/398870/comments/12

I don't know how much good the dpkg --merge-avail "$x" did, but making a copy of "/var/lib/dpkg/info" to defragment it did take a few minutes to complete, and afterwards the "reading database" was MUCH faster!