Thread: Application manager keeps on Updating and wont stop
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gemniii42 is offline gemniii42
2008-07-03 , 00:23
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Originally Posted by timsalmon View Post
This has happened to my unit too. As a complete non-programmer, could someone tell me how to try the "Did you try apt-get clean?" that Gemniii42 mentioned? I guess it's using Terminal but attempts to type in "apt-get clean" don't get me anywhere and "apt-get" seems to present data but I don't know where to go from there. Maybe a programming course?!!

Tim
I apologize, I was responding to bunanson, whom I'm pretty sure understood.
Anyways, you have to have root access. Look at the wiki for gainroot.

So then I do:
sudo gainroot
apt-get clean
exit

exit gets me out of root.
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