How to quit a package manager "yum" during automatic installation of hplip-2.8.4

open a console (shell), and type at the "$" prompt:

ps ax | grep yum

you will see a list of yum processes, along with their process IDs. For
example:

dwelch@ubuntu2:~$ ps ax | grep firefox
 2915 pts/2 S+ 0:00 grep firefox
27638 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/dwelch/firefox/firefox
27641 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh /home/dwelch/firefox/run-mozilla.sh
/home/dwelch/firefox/firefox-bin
27646 ? Sl 23:57 /home/dwelch/firefox/firefox-bin

The numbers on the left side are the process IDs. You should see at least 1
process like "*yum-updatesd"* that is the one that needs to be terminated
(and any others that just are "yum"). Get the process ID for that, and then
type this in:

kill -9 <process ID>

Now, everything should go well.

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Vule <email address hidden>
wrote:

> New question #29679 on HPLIP:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/hplip/+question/29679
>
> Hello!
>
> There is a message during automatic installation of hplip-2.8.4 :"A
> package manager "yum" appears to be running.Please quit the package
> manager". How to do it?. I am a beginner in Linux
> Thank You
> Vule.
>
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