<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 3, 2007 7:11 AM, Richard Knechtel <<a href="mailto:richard.knechtel@gmail.com">richard.knechtel@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I installed Kubuntu 7.10 this weekend (from the live dvd) - trying to get off of OpenSuse (since Novell sold out). However The packagemanger (Adept) from what I can tell just plain sucks. Any package I tried to install just gave an error saying that the install failed because there was a problem installing the package or installing the pacakge might have caused a problem.
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br><div>The last time Adept stopped working for me, it was because the dpkg database had become locked/corrupted. To fix this, you can try a few of the following (run as root, or using sudo):
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica; ">rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock (if the file exists and adept/dpkg/synaptic isn't running)
</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica; ">dpkg --configure -a</span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;">
dpgk -r</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;">
<a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-systemsettings/+question/5301">https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kde-systemsettings/+question/5301</a><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;"><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/7568">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dpkg/+bug/7568</a><br class="webkit-block-placeholder">
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NOTE: I don't have access to my Ubuntu system at the moment, so I can't verify the flags given to 'dpgk' ... please review 'man dpkg' before executing any of the commands.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;">
<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;">HTH,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;">
<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;">-Hani</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica;">
<br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></div><div><br>-- <br>"If, of the many truths, you select only one and follow it blindly, it will become a falsehood, and you a fanatic."
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