Adept competing process problem

[Greg Booth]

On 8/7/07, Alan Bromborsky <brombo at comcast.net> wrote:
> When I try to run adept to install a package I get the message "Another
> process is using the packaging system database".  This proabably
> happened when I tried to install Java and tried to abort the
> installation partway through. The question is, how do I find out what
> this process is and how do I kill it?

sudo dpkg --configure -a