Another Adept problem

[Tez]

Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 00:42 +0000, Tez wrote:
>   
>> Tez wrote:
>>     
>>> Kevin B. O'Brien wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I've managed to screw up something in Adept again. This time, it was an
>>>> attempt to install the Java Run-time Environment (apparently needed for
>>>> running the OpenOffice Database). It downloaded everything, and started
>>>> to install, then hung at around the 30% mark. Finally, after about 45
>>>> minutes I closed Adept. Now when I try to open it, it opens in read-only
>>>> mode and says that some other process is running. I tried rebooting, but
>>>> that did not clear it up. 
>>>>
>>>> Ya know, I really do learn things this way, but can someone te3ll me how
>>>> to get out of this? I'm guessing a file is locked somewhere, but I think
>>>> I should make sure I know *which* file before I try to do anything.<g>
>>>>
>>>> Thank you,
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Ahh, Java and Adept, fun for all the family :P
>>>
>>> First I'll tell you why it hung.
>>> When you chose to install Java JRE, you have to accept the licence for 
>>> it. So it was waiting for you to do that, I know, it's not exactly 
>>> obvious. If you clicked the "" button you would have seen the licence 
>>> and you would have been asked to accept it. 
>>>       
>> <CHOP>
>> I meant to say "If you clicked the "Show Details" button you would have 
>> seen the licence and you would have been asked to accept it."
>> So you know what I'm on about :)
>>     
>
> OK, that got me out of it a little bit, but now I seem stuck in a "You
> can't get htere from here" problem. Now Adept wants to "Upgrade" JRE,
> and the same problem is happening. If I use the
>
> sudo fuser -vik /var/lib/dpkg/lock
>
> command, it asks me if I want to kill the process. I can kill it and
> start over, but then I just get caught in the same place again. I can
> "see" in the window that it is waiting for me to accept the
> not-sufficiently-damned license, but I cannot do that from the Adept
> window. I am guessing I need to do something in Konsole to finish this
> install, but I am not sure how to procedd.
>
> Thank you,
>
>   
You need to use that 2nd command in my 1st post:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
you can also finish the update from konsole with:
sudo apt-get upgrade

Tez