By the way, this issue was already known: http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2008/msg00930.html 2011/1/30 Julien Nicoulaud > Here is zprof after a "sudo apt-get install a": > http://paste2.org/p/1219060 > And after a "sudo aptitude install a": > http://paste2.org/p/1219061 > > As you said earlier, all the time is spent > in _deb_packages_update_uninstalled... > > 2011/1/30 Bart Schaefer > > On Jan 30, 1:53pm, cheer_xiao wrote: >> } >> } I check the documentation that apparently there is no instruction on >> } how to load modules. Any hints? >> >> zmodload zsh/zprof >> >> The zmodload command ought to be cross-referenced from the "Zsh Modules" >> section, but there is an index entry for "loading modules" that points >> to zmodload. >> > >