Anyone here familiar with linux???

[grab an umbrella]

Well first off I'm running kubuntu fiesty fawn...It all started when I was installing some new software via the konsole, and my computer shut down somehow...Yeah it sucked, well I typed in sudo apt-get -f install, to finish installing the software because I was getting some errors.  Well once I finished installing automatix 2 and tried to open it, a screeen popped up and said apt-get is being used by another program.  My package manager was closed, as was the konsole, any suggestions?

[ToxicAvenger]

go 2 a  redhat <linux> board dumbie...

[grab an umbrella]

haha, those guys are so nerdy, their advice almost doesnt help, plus I'm running ubuntu, so redhat wouldn't do too much good...

[Al-Gebra]

ask garraeth or alex23 or someone like that . . . those guys actually seem to know something about computers.

[ToxicAvenger]

anyone with a WAN related issue pm me......


RIP v 1 n 2, OSPF, Eigrp (IGRP), IS-IS , BGP , CIDR IP v 4 and IP v 6 related issues...


my advice is free... just remember i'm at www.asmed.com   and YES i'm promoting where i teach...if DOD considers me good enuff to teach em..i'm good..


once upon a blue moon i ws a solaris admin...no more ...

[ToxicAvenger]

oops and of course STP at layer 2...

i'm shakey with FSTP, GLBP , PVSTP amd PVSTP +...i'm shakey there...so dont bother..

this isn't an attempt to seem smart...to whome it may concern will know what i'm talking about...

i cant help with DSL and most ISDN ssues...i've taught both but am also shakey on both...


wireless..dont ask..know nothing...although gotta learn..

cheers..

[dkf360]

Well first off I'm running kubuntu fiesty fawn...It all started when I was installing some new software via the konsole, and my computer shut down somehow...Yeah it sucked, well I typed in sudo apt-get -f install, to finish installing the software because I was getting some errors.  Well once I finished installing automatix 2 and tried to open it, a screeen popped up and said apt-get is being used by another program.  My package manager was closed, as was the konsole, any suggestions?

Why don't you do a 'ps | grep apt-get' and 'kill -9' the process id and see if that helps.

[bmacsys]

What do you want advice on? Command line stuff? Compiling?

[l_c0llins]

Well once I finished installing automatix 2 and tried to open it, a screeen popped up and said apt-get is being used by another program.  My package manager was closed, as was the konsole, any suggestions?

It might have been the update-manager running 'apt-get update' at the same time.

It's happened to me before so I just disabled it & I now run 'apt-get update' myself from the cmd line.

[Nordic Superman]

Hey, nice collection of acronyms there toxic...

Do you know what STFU means?

On the topic of the thread: the update services are transaction based, 2 update processes cannot co exist, keeping integrity in the system.

try "killall -TERM" to the update processes, then attempt a "sudo apt-get update" as suggested.

[grab an umbrella]

Well I just ended up restarting my computer, and I was reading over my sources.list and it got totally fucked up so I had to regenrate a new one.  Which happened to be a pain in the ass, but no azurues doesn't work now.  Sometimes linux pisses me off so bad...

[Nordic Superman]

I use Ubuntu myself, but have never used automatix.

I know the official Ubuntu team has some criticism towards automatix, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatix_(software)

Normally I just add the repos myself and use either apt-get of the GUI for apt-get. Less shit to go wrong then.