This evening I was trying to install a program from source. Yeah, I should know better. But I have what appear to be superb detailed instructions. Except that the instructions are for Ubuntu so they are full of apt-get commands, but generally all I have to do is replace apt-get with yum.
There was a command: sudo yum install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-opengl-dev libqtwebkit-dev It executed without error, but after 15 minutes I assumed it was hung, so I killed it with Ctrl-Z. Then I tried it again, but just the qt4-dev-tools. This gave me: Existing lock /var/run/yum.pid: another copy is running as pid 20774. Another app is currently holding the yum lock; waiting for it to exit... The other application is: yum So I tried 'sudo kill 20774' and the command executed without error, but yum is still running. I tried killing 20774 from sudo top, and again it executed without error, and still failed to kill yum. I can't do anything until I figure out how to drive a stake through yum's heart. Any suggestions? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
