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From: Bo Berglund on 29 Sep 2008 01:22
On Sun, 28 Sep 2008 18:04:40 -0400, David Sanders
<news(a)nospam.sandersweb.net> wrote:

>Bo Berglund wrote:
>> However, when I reached the very last command:
>> sudo dpkg -i ./vmadd-full_2.0-2_i386.deb
>> I received the disappointing message:
>> "dpkg: status database area is locked by another process"
>> and it won't go forward. :-(
>
>You can have only one program accessing the apt database at a time.
>Close synaptic or whatever you have open and try again. I don't have
>the additions installed in my ubuntu vm so I don't know if it will work,
>but you may find that it puts the mouse driver in the wrong folder and
>even if it is in the right folder it may not work as it is written for
>an earlier version of xfree86.

I did as Mark suggested and got myself a VMWare Ubuntu virtual
appliance (the files for a virtual machine) and started it in VMWare
Workstation. VMAdditions are already installed and working so now I
don't have to release the mouse anymore when going between windows.
I'll chuck out the VPC2007 Ubuntu guest next.

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Bo Berglund (Sweden)
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