PackageKit

[Rog131]

Earlier > Adept and future (maybe)


Those who want to test KPackageKit (PackageKit frontend):

PPA repositories > Show PPAs matching: packagekit > PPA for Anthony Mercatante


>> FAQ: Package Managers / PackageKit

[caryb]

Re: PackageKit

Call me stupid, but I have it installed but there is no menu item for it & I cant find it in /usr/bin to manually link to it


Cary

[Rog131]

Re: PackageKit

You have ?:

- kpackagekit
- libpackagekit-qt0
- packagekit
- packagekit-backend-apt


Hmm - PPA robots are just buiding kpackagekit (0.1-0ubuntu2~ppa1). Earlier version - kpackagekit (0.1-0ubuntu1) - didn't have amd64 support.


kpackagekit and libpackagekit-qt0 are installing:

[caryb]

Re: PackageKit

didn't have amd64 support.

This might be the answer I run 64 bit


Cary

[giupenni]

Re: PackageKit

But, can be include KPackagekit in Kubuntu Jaunty like default?

Giuseppe

[Sunny Rabbiera]

Re: PackageKit

Well its no surprise to me that adept went under, I never liked it and it never gave the same decent functionality as synaptic did.

[Rog131]

Re: PackageKit

But, can be include KPackagekit in Kubuntu Jaunty like default?

That seems to be the plan > Topic: Jaunty Release Schedule, Plans, KDE 4.2 >> Plans / Blueprints (part II)

[kyonides]

Re: PackageKit

The only thing I've found is KPackage. Do I need to install something else? I tried to install KPackagekit but nothing was found (not even on konsole). I added the repo mentioned above, I visited the launchpad website but couldn't find it there...

[Rog131]

Re: PackageKit

The only thing I've found is KPackage. Do I need to install something else? I tried to install KPackagekit but nothing was found (not even on konsole). I added the repo mentioned above, I visited the launchpad website but couldn't find it there...

Note !

That was:

on: September 30, 2008
...
This is with the Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex (alpha-6)

Back then > FAQ: Package Managers / PackageKit

These NEW packages will be installed:
kpackagekit libpackagekit-qt0 packagekit packagekit-backend-ap

When searching now: PPA repositories > Show PPAs matching: packagekit

There are (search finds):
> PPA for PackageKit-Team
and
> PPA for Jonathan Riddell


=> PackageKit-Team status is FAILEDTOBUILD for the Intrepid.
=> Jonathan Riddell's PPA has old versions (0.0~git20080716, Wed, 16 Jul 2008)