<div dir="ltr">It's packagekit-gnome, not 'gnome-packagekit'. Worked fine for me. Are we supposed to be critiquing the software? It was a bit minimalist, and the frames in the windows are not resize-able. It doesn't seem as full featured as Synaptic, though it has a good look to it. It's info area is better laid out, and a live search feature. The repo listing is better in Synaptic. In short, I could see it being very useful and competitive with Synaptic, with a few tweaks and cleanups. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Sebastian Heinlein <<a href="mailto:glatzor@ubuntu.com">glatzor@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. Highlights of the 0.3.x series are: * Search for codecs and mime type handlers * Local file installation * Change log for updates * Group support * Repository handling * Notification of new distro releases * A lot of bug fixes See the feature matrix for more infromation: <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html" target="_blank">http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html</a> Currently we have got a quite outdated 0.2.4 version in Intrepid. Furthermore sharing the same version would help to reduce maintenance burden, since Fedora plans to ship 0.3.2 in the next release. But before proposing a freeze exception I would like to have some feedback. So if you are interested in this piece of software and want to push packagekit forward please test it on your system and report bugs that you may encounter. You can find packages of the upcoming 0.3.2 release for Hardy and Intrepid in this Personal Package Archive: <a href="https://launchpad.net/%7Epackagekit/+archive" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/~packagekit/+archive</a> Add the repository and install the packages packagekit and gnome-packagekit. The new applications will appear in the System -> Administration menu. The obligatory screenshot: <a href="http://www.glatzor.de/fileadmin/files/screenshots/packagekit/Bildschirmfoto.png" target="_blank">http://www.glatzor.de/fileadmin/files/screenshots/packagekit/Bildschirmfoto.png</a> Cheers, Sebastian -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss</a> </blockquote></div> -- Luke L. </div>