Update help Kubuntu 7.04 Fiesty Fawn

Greg Booth bootgr at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 19:07:06 UTC 2007


On 8/6/07, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Farid Ansari wrote:
> > Hi Karl,
> > This command does not work.
> > How do I exit all packaging systems like Adept, apt-get and aptitude.
>
> Probably there is none of those commands running. Anyway, to be sure, you
> could try this command in a terminal:
>
> sudo killall adept apt-get aptitude
>
> However your problem is more likely a stale lock file. According to
> <http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-331923.html> you should
> remove the lock files in /var/lib/apt/lists/ /var/lib/aptitude/ (and in
> in /var/lib/dpkg/, but that's what you tried already). The command in a
> terminal to remove those files is:
>
> sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock /var/lib/aptitude/lock
>
> Maybe somebody knows other possible locations for lock files?
>
>
> Nils
>

Isn't there a dpkg command to clear the lock files ??

Greg




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