Adept Manager

[studmuffin007]

When i start adept manager it gives me this error message
(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.)
why is it telling me that?

thanks in advance

[gypsy98101]

Re: Adept Manager

Often this happens when Adept kind of crashes but doesn't actually close all the way.

Try simply logging out and then logging back in. But if that doesn't solve the problem, try running the process monitor to see if Adept is running in the background even when you don't think it's open.

[Fenyx]

Re: Adept Manager

If the above still doesn't work, try this command in Konsole:

sudo dpkg --configure -a

[studmuffin007]

Re: Adept Manager

Thanks for that but i am not sure if any of the advice worked as i get this error message as well now
There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages.

Thanks

[Fenyx]

Re: Adept Manager

Try this command:

sudo apt-get -f install

[studmuffin007]

Re: Adept Manager

thanks for the reply i done the sudo apt-get -f install thing and it returned this

eading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
tetex-base mplayer-skins tofrodos tetex-bin tidy libtidy-0.99-0
nvidia-kernel-common libkpathsea4 libt1-5 tex-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up clamav-base (0.88.4-1ubuntu2) ...
chown: cannot access `/var/run/clamav': No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing clamav-base (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clamav-freshclam:
clamav-freshclam depends on clamav-base (= 0.88.4-1ubuntu2); however:
Package clamav-base is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing clamav-freshclam (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of clamav:
clamav depends on clamav-freshclam | clamav-data; however:
Package clamav-freshclam is not configured yet.
Package clamav-data is not installed.
Package clamav-freshclam which provides clamav-data is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing clamav (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
clamav-base
clamav-freshclam
clamav
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

where it refers to clamav i uninstalled clamav but it still returns the above errors, why?

thanks in advance

[tiger99]

Re: Adept Manager

Sometimes when this type of error happens, it helps to re-install the packages, and maybe configure them, before attempting to remove them. Not necessarily just with Clamav, I have seen it with others.

But before you do that, go through the running processes and kill any that relate to Clam, just in case having a daemon of some kind running is preventing the removal and re-installation.

A reinstall should leave the package in a clean state with all its dependencies intact, as the removal script probably expects.

But sometimes you have to find and remove all the files manually first. Just like Windoze, Linux is complex and there are some things that defeat the package management system. Having said that, I have far more stuff installed under Kubuntu, 6366 packages now, than any Windoze system would ever support.

Adept is itself still very slightly buggy, but the last update improved it greatly. The underlying dpkg system is probably the best package management system anywhere, but still not quite perfect, although much of that is due to errors within the individual package scripts, not the fundamental system. It is possible to also install Synaptic, it uses the same underlying system, but is sometimes useful in resolving a problem which Adept will not tackle. But as you are already using the command line, you might not need it.

[studmuffin007]

Re: Adept Manager

Sometimes when this type of error happens, it helps to re-install the packages, and maybe configure them, before attempting to remove them. Not necessarily just with Clamav, I have seen it with others.

But before you do that, go through the running processes and kill any that relate to Clam, just in case having a daemon of some kind running is preventing the removal and re-installation.

Ok as i am new to kubuntu would you be so kind as to explain the above for me

thanks in advance