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On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 19:29 +0000, jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hi, I am currently trying to install a program but during the process I am > told that there is another program running that must be quit/stopped/killed > before I can continue to do the install. I can't seem to do the command. I'm > doing dkpg -kill and dkpg -configure -quit but these don't work. I fail to see why you are trying to do that - it sounds like the program you are trying to install is simply borked. If the package is not available through your distribution, I would leave well alone. Please stop thinking of package installation in windows-mode. It is *not* a good idea to try to install packages simply from a download from some website or other. Just because it works for some packages, it is still better to get packages from your repositories - that is how all these problems are resolved for you. > I am > pretty useless with the command line and often get confused with the syntax > of the help files. Can anyone give me a simple command the will term dkpg. Umm, you shouldn't do that. dpkg is too fundamental to the rest of your system and leaving a dpkg process in a broken state can quite easily leave your system in a very broken state. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html