Adept package manager

[Terence Simpson]

David McGlone wrote:
> Oops I accidentally hit the touchpad with the cursor on the send button.
>
> Anyway, I recall a discussion somewhere about Adept locking up after a crash 
> and the solution was to delete a lock file somewhere.
>
> Well today my desktop crashed and now Adept package manager is complaining 
> that another process is using the database or something to that effect, and I 
> can't find nor recall where the lock file was that needs to be removed to get 
> adept working again.
>
> Anyone know?
>
> Thanks.
>   
If Adept crashed on you and your database is locked, try this in konsole:
sudo fuser -vki /var/lib/dpkg/lock ; sudo dpkg --configure -a