Adept (Updater) Won't Launch??

[XxZtemxX]

Hi guys, I've had this problem lingering around for a few days now, and I'm finally getting some time to address it. I have the little "There are ## updated packages available" reminder on the bottom right of my screen, but when i go to click it (and put my password to run as root)... it goes through and almost loads. Then it tells me that the database is locked, and that another process is using the packaging system database. It does this if i try to open Adept the normal way too...

um... help?

[penguin.ch]

Re: Adept (Updater) Won't Launch??

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=13012.0

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Postscript: reference updated

[Swordsman]

Re: Adept (Updater) Won't Launch??

EDIT: Dammit! Spoke to soon, thought it was fixed.

when trying to run the sudo apt-get -f install or the like, I get this message:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

but when I run dpkg --configure -a I get this message:

dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege

Even though I'm in as root. Now, I'm pretty new to Linux, so can somebody help me please:?

[mfburgo]

Re: Adept (Updater) Won't Launch??

EDIT: Dammit! Spoke to soon, thought it was fixed.

when trying to run the sudo apt-get -f install or the like, I get this message:

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

but when I run dpkg --configure -a I get this message:

dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege

Even though I'm in as root. Now, I'm pretty new to Linux, so can somebody help me please:?

do

sudo dpkg --configure -a

it should work fine.