Personal help thread

[HymenBuster]

i bein having so many problems and questions with linux, so i decided to create a thread for my problems so i dont flood the forum.

ok so i tried to run the adept program like always and it says that i have some other program open and i can't do any changes to system blah blah blah, read only mode.

there r not adept managers open and no visible signs of what program is interfering with adept. i have tried restarting but no luck, seems like a restart on linux is just basically pausin ur computer, doesnt reset anything.

[machoo02]

Re: Personal help thread

At some time in the past did you try installing things through the command line, either through apt-get or aptitude? Basically, the problem is that adept cannot have control of a file that it needs. In the command line, try

sudo dpkg --configure -a

to see if that will finish any stalled or incomplete package installations

[javierrivera]

Re: Personal help thread

Press CTRL+Escape.

This should bring up a list of runing processes. In the top of the window there is a search bar, type apt on it. If any process show kill it. Now type dpkg, kill everything with dpkg in it's name.

Try to open Adept.

NOTE: You can find that some of this processes are run as root. Then you will not be able to kill it from your normal account. You will need a somewhat more complicated procedure to be able to kill those process.

Hit ALT+F2. A prompt will appear just type:

kdesu ksysguard

You will be asked for a password and afterwards a program similar to the above one will appear. It'll show two tabs, the first one are some system performance graphics, the second one is just the same as the CTRL+ESC screen, but here you will be able to kill root programs.

There is also a quicker command line aproach, if you prefer.

$ps -A u | grep apt

This will give you a list of the runing processes that have apt in their name. You can kill them with:

$sudo kill pid-number

You can check the pidnumber from the above command. It is the first number on the list.

If some program refuses to die, you can make a "forced" kill with.

$sudo kill -9 pid-number

Repeat it for dpkg:

$ps -A u | grep dpkg

Hope that this helps.

Javier.

[javierrivera]

Re: Personal help thread

Try machooo2 idea first. Only try mine if this doesn't work,

Javier.

[HymenBuster]

Re: Personal help thread

ok thx i finally got it working.

now im trying to install sun java so i can install limewire, on some other thread some1 said its not a good idea to install java with adecpt, y? i searched java in adept and found that theres a package there.

also can anyone tell me how i can run rpm files (limewire install in my case) un kubuntu?

Thanks so much guys for all the generous help,
love u guys in the straightest way possible.

[HymenBuster]

Re: Personal help thread

o noes, another problem, when i try to instlal programs it give me this error now, "could not commit changes"

any idea on how to fix this?

[machoo02]

Re: Personal help thread

Hi,

You should not try to install java with adept because you must accept/decline Sun's EULA, and this is not possible in adept. Install it with apt-get or aptitude instead. If you already tried this, then perhaps another

sudo dpkg --configure -a

is in order.

To install .rpm packages, you will need alien (see http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/alien.1.html):

sudo apt-get install alien

To install Limewire:

sudo alien -i LimeWireLinux.rpm

Hope this helps,
-matt

[HymenBuster]

Re: Personal help thread

ok i got that part but i i had somehow installed java and now its trying to update in adept, i cant update bc i have ti clik the agreement.

like i said, i cant uninstall or install anything with adept.
when i try to it says: "could not commit changes-Adept Manager" --- There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages.

help plz, this problem has got me stuck.

*edit: nvm got it workign aafter figuring out how to clik ok on agreement on sun-java