Ubuntu Problem! Please help!

which program did you use to install?

as stated: "close the other application e.g. 'Update manager', 'aptitude' or 'Synaptic' first."

after a restart none of them should be running. so using ONE program to install should definitely work.

I tried to install limewire for Linux. It used "Package installer" to install, but always came up with that error.
There was no other program running at the time. Can anyone help?

what do you see, when you run "ps -aux | grep -i apt" on a terminal?

It said

~$ ps -aux| grep -i apt
Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See http://procps.sf.net/faq.html
7633 0.0 0.0 2972 804 pts/0 R+ 20:53 0:00 grep -i apt

What does that mean?

i got

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

 when i tried to install something from the "add or remove programs" app. I tried typing in the terminal dpkg --configure -a but it did nothing.

Can someone please help me?

You need a space. It's

ps -aux | grep -i apt

with a space between the x and the |

You can see what processes are running (similar to Windows CTRL+ALT+DEL, don't press that..) by pressing ALT+F2 and entering "gnome-system-monitor" (without quotes). If any Synaptic or Aptitude are running you may wish to kill them.

Have you maybe put one of the applications on another desktop? You can use CTRL+ALT+LEFT and CTRL+ALT+RIGHT to switch between them or click the applet typically in the bottom-right.

Thank you guys all for trying, but i still cant install or uninstall anything.
Here is a link to my screenshot of everything that was displayed in gnome-system-monitor.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w154/westinlohne/Screenshot.png

Can anybody tell me if theres anything on this list that may be causing problems?

THANK YOU!
Westin

Try this:

sudo apt-get -f install

Well when i typed that in it asked for my password.
I tried typing it in but it would not allow me. I was typing but nothing was coming out. Is there something i doing wrong?

Thanks everyone for all the help,
Westin

if typing a password nothing is displayed. so nobody could even count the length of your password.

just type it and press enter

westin@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for westin:
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.
westin@Ubuntu:~$

Thank you very much everyone who helped my on this one!
This is by-far the best help ever. Nothing that Microsoft could ever give!

Thanks,
Westin

Thanks exactt, that solved my question.