I was trying to install Zoho Notebook from a deb file and got the dreaded "there's another installer running" error. I looked up the forum and found a post from FOUR years ago, about the same error on v 3
Why has this not been fixed in V5?
(01-20-2021, 11:51 AM)Gordonbp link Wrote: [ -> ]I was trying to install Zoho Notebook from a deb file and got the dreaded "there's another installer running" error. I looked up the forum and found a post from FOUR years ago, about the same error on v 3
Why has this not been fixed in V5?
And are you sure there wasn't another installer running? How were you trying to install the .deb? Terminal commands? Gdebi? How?
Yeah can be annoying..not for me on Lite but some other way back.
Almost sure you had some installer running or gdebi and synaptic at once
[member=42384]Gordonbp[/member]
I see 2 questions..
1) the lock - another process has it locked aka "there's another installer running" ...
And
2) Installing software still needs to run "dpkg --configure -a" command ...
1 this is by design and not a LL feature; if you have say Updates running and try to install an app, the updates will "lock" until the process is completed.
and vice versa - if you are installing via CLI or another(Synaptic etc) it will lock and updates cannot run.... Synaptic will lock while it open even if not installing....
2 kinda goes hand in hand; you will get this prompt - typically if you have cancelled an update/install mid way.
If you receive this prompt - in terminal run...
Code:
sudo dpkg --configure -a
Allow to complete, then rerun updates or installer..