kPackageKit does nothing

[Karl Vanwynsberghe]

Op zaterdag 10 oktober 2009 18:16:49 schreef Derek Broughton:
> Billie Erin Walsh wrote:
> > James Tappin wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Synaptic is _WAY_ better than what they've turned Adept into.
> 
> Neither of which is any kind of solution for a user's perfectly reasonable
> expectation that the software installed by default should work.
> 
> Try running kpackagekit from a console, and see if you get any obvious
>  error messages.
> 
This is the result;
... at laptop:~$ kpackagekit
enumFromString ( Group ) : converted "unknown" to "UnknownGroup" 
, enum value 34
... at laptop:~$ removing transaction from pool :  "/70_cccdcbbe_data"
Then kPackageKit starts (and can't find any packages nor updates...)

Karl,