plocate taking very long with database init

This is my first time asking anything here, so I have no clue how askubuntu works, I guess

I tried installing plocate, with hopes it would not take long. Multiple posts said it would take seconds, a couple minutes max. My ubuntu server install (22.04.1 LTS) has been installing plocate and stuck on initialization for 5 hours now. Is there any way to either cancel the installation, or skip the initialization? ctrl+c stops it, but apt just tells me to do sudo dpkg --configure -a, which brings me back to where i am now. Any help? I can't find this issue anywhere else.

I also had the same issue with plocate as soon as I started the install.

My solution was to do following commands:

which plocate
cd /usr/bin
sudo rm -rf plocate
find iname plocate
sudo dpkg --configure --pending
rpm -qf /usr/bin/updatedb
sudo apt remove plocate -y

Hope this helps. And also thankyou to olalekan for the initial help

I had this problem, it was taking so long I had to quit with ctrl-C but I later found it was blocking other processes and downloads after running this command ps aux | grep -i apt.

After going through this article, I killed the process with sudo fuser -vki -TERM /var/lib/dpkg/lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend in the terminal, and entered sudo dpkg --configure --pending, but the problem persisted until I ran the following commands

• type updatedb updatedb
• rpm -qf /usr/bin/updatedb
• sudo apt-get remove plocate -y.

If that does not work, you can google how to uninstall a package. I guess you can also run which plocate to find its path, navigate to it, then delete it by running sudo rm plocate