Adept error fixed!

[penryn]

Hi,
When trying to open adept it gives me an error message that says an adept, apt-get, or aptitude application is currently running. It then opens adept but gives me read only privileges. I opened the terminal and entered sudo killall kio_file
It has worked before but not now. Also I recently installed automatix2. I used it to install sun-java6-jre. It would not install and got hung up.I get this error in synaptic "you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem" I don't know how to do this. I've typed it in the terminal and then have no clue.


Thank you,

Penryn

I'm running edgy.

[lowey23]

Re: Adept error

G'day, penryn

Just open your terminal and type

sudo dpkg --configure -a

it will ask for your password

Do that and all should be sweeeeet.

Lowey

[penryn]

Re: Adept error

Hi Lowey,
You are so super. It worked I was looking for a lot harder fix. lol! I'm still having some problems with my java plug-in which created this problem in the first place. But I am going to fix it.

Thank you so much!!

Penryn

[f1rem0th]

Re: Adept error fixed!

Ah, I had a similar problem with installing teh java runtime environment. the problem is thet the installation requires a confirmation,a nd this is difficult to provide under adept.



search for it in adept, and then type

 Sudo apt-get install <package name you get in teh search>

that way you can see the confirmation request and answer


to explain further, the request can be seen in the "show details" on adept, however it is not interactive, so a simple terminal apt-get solves this.


f1rem0th.