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How To Kill a Process in the Linux terminal

In this how-to we’ll look at various ways of using the terminal emulator to identify processes and how to kill them. A process can be an application or script running on your Linux machine. Sometimes ...
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So...um..how do I kill a process that won't die?

So I am running aptitude and updating. Well, after "unpacking replacement dpkg" for 45 or so minutes, I try to gank it. First I try to use "kill -KILL". Then tried every variation thereof (HUP, INT, ...