Software updater hangs after about 80%

[Liam Proven]

On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 at 18:49, Richard Kimber
<richardkimber at politicsresources.net> wrote:

> The latter worked ok, but sudo apt full-upgrade -y just gave a help
> message listing the commands

Hmmm. I thought ``apt'' was fully implemented in 16.04 but if not the
older ``apt-get'' equivalent is:

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

>  and sudo apt install -f complained that
> it could not get an exclusive lock.

So there's still an operation running.

> I tried killing the other process, but it remains in the list.

How did you try, please?

sudo kill [pid]
...?

sudo kill -9 [pid]
...?

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