[Tfug] ooops

[Paul Scott]

Ray Reeves wrote:
> I checked the syntax of the command and it appears to be correct, no 
> quotes were used. I just tried the installer again and it is telling 
> me to check to see if synaptic, apt or update manager is running. I 
> see no apparent operation of these programs going on. They are being 
> seen as running by the system. I checked in the system monitor to see 
> if they showed up in the process section, nothing. How do I kill them 
> if they are indeed there?

At a terminal/console do:

ps ax | less

That will give you the process id which you can kill if necessary, 
probably with:

sudo kill ,process-id>

HTH

Paul Scott