On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 12:26 -0700, Alan wrote: > On Mon, March 10, 2008 12:23 pm, Alan Crandall wrote: > > hello I am between jobs so have time to work on my Ubuntu install on my > > tower and running into problem upgrading to 7.1 It tells another task > > in running-apt-get-and to kill it but not sure how. I type in a console > > kill apt-get but that does not work. If I want to just upgrade programs > > I already have installed I get run dpkg --configure -a which I have > > tried several time by typing su and then my password which it does not > > take ? > > You want "sudo" as in: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] sudo kill -9 12345 > Password: <---Your user passwd > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > thanks for the reply but that did not seems to work as when I tried to upgrade to 7.10 I got "unable to get exclusive lock-This means that another package management application (like apt-get or aptitude) is already running.Please close that task first"
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