----- Original Message ----- From: Wild One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, June 23, 2003 9:34 am Subject: (clug-talk) Kpackage frozen
> Hi all, > My deepest gratitude to all the great people that were there at the > last > install fest. I got lots of help and pushes in different directions > and > for being my first Clug event I was very impressed. > > I managed to get a copy of "Cluggix 2.0" with me home and installed > it. > Now my printer was included in the setup and most stuff was easy to > go > through. > However, I have a problem with KPackage that I can not get rid of. > I > wanted to install AMSN (Al's Messenger) and when KPackage opened it > froze immedately. I tried to close it and to log out and restart > the > machine, but it won't close and KDE restores the session every > time, so > it comes back and sits there. I can minimize it, but in the process > of > messing with it I have tried to open other packages, or just > KPackage on > its own, and now I have four frozen instances of it sitting in the > task > bar... > > Are there any suggestions? Can I start X-windows without restoring > the > session? as root from console: killall -9 kpackage if it hangs. Is there a way to extract the KPackage from the CD so I > can try > to reinstall it? I just tried downloading KPackage to reinstall it, no > but > it was a package and so it opened up a fifth instance, this is > turning > into a circus.... :-) > > Any suggestions are appreciated... Hi Diana instead of kpackage try using dpkg -i "name of packge .deb" from a terminal. I will investigate the kpackge issue further. Thanx, Dan > > Diana > >
