Adept Error, need help

[deviance]

Basicly, I get this message when I start adept:

You will not be able to change your system settings in any way (install, remove or upgrade software), because another process is using the packaging system database (probably some other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude). Please close the other application before using this one.

I am running aMSN, Firefox2, superkaramba, klipper and kdewallet.

Anyone know the cause?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Adept Error, need help

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=14042.0

[deviance]

Re: Adept Error, need help

sudo dpkg --configure --pending

I did that and I get:

dpkg: status database area is locked by another process

[deviance]

Re: Adept Error, need help

If it helps, it failed while installing setiathome and couldnt find a websiter of somet

[deviance]

Re: Adept Error, need help

Sorry for the tripple post, but I ran that again after a restart and i get this:

Setting up setiathome (3.08-4) ...
setiathome-3.08.i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar not found in /tmp.
--19:10:05-- ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/set...-linux-gnu.tar
=> `/tmp/filenckoM8'
Resolving alien.ssl.berkeley.edu... 128.32.18.176
Connecting to alien.ssl.berkeley.edu|128.32.18.176|:21...


And it stays like that for ever

Edit: this has happend now:

failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--19:13:15-- ftp://alien.ssl.berkeley.edu/pub/set...-linux-gnu.tar
(try: 2) => `/tmp/filenckoM8'
Connecting to alien.ssl.berkeley.edu|128.32.18.176|:21...

How long before it gives up and is there anyway to tell it to uninstall or something?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Adept Error, need help

In short, you're trying to install "garbage"; in more detail:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=10872

[deviance]

Re: Adept Error, need help

So I delete the file called lock in:

/var/lib/apt/lists/
var/lib/dpkg/
/var/cache/apt/archives/


And can I do it in a sudo version of Konquror?

Ill give it a shot later

[deviance]

Re: Adept Error, need help

I diddn't work, are ther any other places I need to delete locks?

[deviance]

Re: Adept Error, need help

Sorry to bump, but anyone know the cure.

[Auisce]

Re: Adept Error, need help

Sorry if this is irrelevant but I've had a few problems with Adept, usually this fixes it:
sudo dpkg --configure --pending
but once it wouldn't work but this did:
sudo apt-get -f install
I hope it helps, I'm fairly new to Linux but I found these helped me.

[claydoh]

Re: Adept Error, need help

If you run 'sudo apt-get update' (or upgrade), usually the error message will tell you which file is the one in question
An example;

claydoh@dohbuoy:~$ sudo apt-get upgrade
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

so you would need to delete the file /var/lib/dpkg/lock (or whichever one is mentioned).
you can get an admin konqueror by going to 'run command' in the Kmenu, and use the command 'kdeu konqueror', or you can use the already open konsole and delete it that way:

sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock [code]

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