Hi Karl, I tried it after 3 hours but still got the same message. Right clicked the small icon on the taskbar and said quit. Still unable to add-remove programmes cause some other system is working. Farid
On 7/22/07, Karl Goetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Farid Ansari wrote: > I installed the Kubuntu 7.10 Beta and last night gor the updates which > were about 350 mb. The updates installed smoothly. > This morning when I started Kubuntu I got the message that there were 48 > more updates available. When I clicked the get updates notification it > did not start the update and the following message was displayed:- > > Datebase Locked- Adept Updater > > Another process is using the packaging system ( probably some > other Adept application or apt-get or aptitude ). > Please close the other applications before using this one. > > I do not know what pther applicaton is running and how to close it. > Please someone advise because the required updates include Firefox and > Thunderbird Mail which I desperately need. > > As I am a newbie I would appreciate detailed commands for shutting down > the applications. > > Thanks for the help. > > Farid Ansari > Karachi, Pakistan > > leave it 15 minutes, and try again. kk -- Karl Goetz User of gNewSense: Free as in Freedom - http://www.gnewsense.org Australian Ubuntu users team - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam User of Debian, The Universal Operating System - http://www.debian.org
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