----- 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
> 
> 

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