My apt search has become super slow recently

[mydeardiary]

Recently stumbled into this issue on Armbian Bullseye 22.05.3 with khadas-vim1-bsp-cli package installed. Actually, it is not a real Vim-1 but another cheap amlogic s905x box.

 

The apt search slowness is fixed by emptying /etc/apt/20-armbian-compress-indexes , removing files inside /var/lib/apt/lists and re-running apt-get update

 

I keep /etc/apt/20-armbian-compress-indexes instead of removing the file in case a future system update will bring back its contents.

 

Hopefully this will help somebody who stumbles upon this issue in the future.

 

[Issac Nunez]

From my point of view the delay in the apt is just a common issue now as it may be due to number of packages installed -  check the number of packages installed!