Update help Kubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn

Karl karlok at fastmail.fm
Mon Aug 6 16:05:35 UTC 2007


Farid Ansari wrote:
> My taskbar says there are 5 updates available but when I ask for these
> updates I am shown this message :-
> 
> " Another process is using the packaging system database (probably
> some other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude). Please close the
> other application before using this one."
> 
> I do not know which process is in use and also do not know how to disable it.
> 
> Please someone be kind enough to advise.
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> 
> Farid Ansari
> 
Some process must have crashed, leaving the packaging database locked. 
To unlock it, use this command:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

Karl




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