[Eug-lug] unbuntu and admin

[Alan]

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:
you at system$ sudo kill -9 12345
Password: <---Your user passwd
you at system$

-ajb