kPackageKit does nothing

[James Tappin]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 20:19:07 +0200
Karl Vanwynsberghe <Karl.Vanwynsberghe at telenet.be> wrote:

KV> I'm running Kubuntu 9.10 and i'm having a problim with kPackageKit.
KV> It does actually...nothing.
KV> 
KV> There are never updates available, I can't search for packages,...
KV> I can install all the updates with apt...
KV> 
KV> Any ideas?

There are lots of problems with kpackagekit.

Try installing adept (sudo apt-get install adept) and using that instead
-- it's not the worlds best interface (IMHO the best package manager
interface is the shaman manager from Chakra) but it's a lot more
functional than kpackagekit.


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