I'm using Mint 13 if that matters. And I'm new.Anyway, I tried installing Adobe Reader 9 using their installer from:http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=10&platform=UnixIt got stuck when on a line that said something about setting up icons. There was no CPU usage for about an hour, so I killed the process.Of course, running apt-get again (to install another program) gives me a lock error. So after rebooting to unlock, I use this command:sudo dpkg -a --configureand then...sudo apt-get -f install... as instructed by similar questions on the AskUbuntu forum. However, it once again gets stuck at an installation step and gives me this line:Setting up acroread (9.4.7-1oneiric1) ......which I then kill. I tried using Synaptic to mark the incomplete acroread install for deletion, but it gets hung up on another line. It says something about a plugin being invalid if I recall correctly.I want to tell apt-get to just stop trying to install acroread every time I use the command. Any ideas?
Apt-get refuses to stop trying to install Acroreader
apt;dpkg;synaptic