Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

[EricGod48]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

Can you get into the Adept-updater? If so, right click flash-plugin entry and choose "purge" and apply changes. Then reinstall it from adept or synaptic. When I did this it successfully installed.

Eric

[ipwnrobots]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

How do I get to the Adept -updater? Remember that I am a new Linux user. I typed that into the shell and it didn't work.

[someguyouknow]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

you can just use adept and search for flash...
you can purge it from there...

[The Liquidator]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

Here's what worked for me, my recent tribulations with adept were caused by the flash plugin.

Launch a terminal and type sudo dpkg --configure -a

That will unlock adept. Now to stop it happening again. Launch adept and uninstall the flash plugin from the system . You will then be able to update your machine and adept will ignore the fact that there is a new flash plugin as it's not installed.

Now to get flash back. My preference is the old fashioned way. Get the flash plugin from the macromedia website. Extract it. That will create a folder flash installer with an installer file inside it. Keep the folder open within konqueror.

Run a terminal and type sudo sh then leave a space and then drag the installer file into the terminal window. On releasing the mouse you will get a number of options, select paste and hit return. The plugin will then install. You will be asked for the firefox directory which is /usr/lib/firefox and that, then is basically it. Sounds long-winded but it isn't and you can be pretty sure it will work first time. The plugin survives updates of firefox and all you need do is check periodically for an updated version and, if there is one, repeat the process.

Hope this alternative view of the situation is of help

Ian

[ipwnrobots]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

That all worked. Thanks for helping me to get it working again. Now I can get the needed programs with Adept.

[varaahan]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

Synaptic is better (IMHO).
Try to use that instead of Adept.

[mmac72]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

I had the same problem

the command
sudo dpkg --configure -a

solved it.

Best,
Marco

[lilmutt]

Re: Adept is locked & I'm stuck - please help.

If you want to install Flash the following commands will install Flash 9 beta for you. It's a beta but I've haven't had any problems with it so far.

wget http://download.macromedia.com/pub/l..._101806.tar.gz
tar xvzf FP9_plugin_beta_101806.tar.gz
sudo cp flash-player-plugin-9.0.21.55/libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/

I got this from: http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy#windows
It has a lot of useful info and everything I've tried using this page has worked fine for me. I don't know if it will solve your Adept problem