Adept failure

[Arthur Dyck]

Your first suggestion did the trick.  As a newbie I really appreciate you 
folks out there who are willing to take the time to help people out of a jam.  
I hope I'll be able to do the same some day.

Arthur

On Friday 23 March 2007 09:01, claydoh wrote:
> On Fri March 23 2007 10:36:50 am Arthur Dyck wrote:
> > I am trying to use Adept on Kubuntu Edgy and get the following error
> > message:
> >
> > Database Locked - Adept Installer.  Another process is using the
> > packaging system database (probably Adept or apt-get or aptitude). 
> > Please close the other application before using this one.
> >
> > I don't have anything else open.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> >
> > Arthur
>
> In a Konsole window, try running this command to finish any package
> installs that may have not completed:
>
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
>
> if that does not fix it, then run the command:
> sudo apt-get upgrade
>
> this will give an error and will specify the lock file that is causing this
> problem. A lock file is present to prevent two different package managers
> running at the same time, and sometimes one gets left behind in a crash or
> something.
> To delete this, since you are already in a konsole window, try this:
>
> sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock
> substitute whatever filepath is in the error.