[Eug-lug] unbuntu and admin

[Alan Crandall]

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