Ingo Thies wrote: > Hi, > > Since I have installed Emacs22 and no more using emacs21, I am trying to > remove the latter vie Fin Commander. Apparently, nothing is happening > except for a message > > "Running /sw/bin/apt-get -q0 -f remove emacs21 > > The whole process is running now for about an hour, without noticable HDD > activity (except for that I am causing by writing this mail). > > Is there something going wrong? Should I terminate the process? Or just > continue waiting, even if nothing happens over the whole night? May a soft > termination by disconnecting from the internet be a possible way out of > the apparent infinite loop? > > Any hints what's going on there? > > Ingo Thies > > > Your internet connection is absolutely irrelevant here, because you're removing a package that is on the machine. Try running "top" to see what's going on.
If you're concerned, go ahead and stop Fink Commander, and then try running "dpkg -l emacs21" in a terminal window. That will tell you what the status of the package really is. It may have been removed and Fink Commander just got lost in updating its table. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
