[SOLVED] kpackagekit

[jankushka]

trying to give kpackagekit a try.
but doesn't work.
the bloody thing...

gui starts up.
no packages are shown.
whenever i try to do anything i get:
"Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1"

i have no issues whatsoever with synaptic.
which i end up using every time, since package management in kubuntu seems to have no hope.
i checked my packages and dependencies.
i cannot see anything macroscopically wrong.
must say i have jj installed since alpha something, so it's not a clean beta installation.
but kpackagekit didn't work before either, anyway.
any ideas?

ps:
here's what i see if i start it from command line and hit "software updates"

$ kpackagekit
KPackageKit(6879) kpackagekit::KPackageKit::newInstance: SHOW UI!
KPackageKit(6879) kpackagekit::KPackageKit::showUi: GO UI!
KPackageKit(6879) KpkAddRm::setCurrentAction:
enumFromString ( Group ) : converted "unknown" to "Unknown" , enum value -1
KPackageKit(6879) KpkTransactionBar::setBehaviors: Hide! 1
$ KPackageKit(6879) KpkTransactionBar::setBehaviors: Hide! 1
New transaction with tid "/24_bedeedbe_data"
New transaction with tid "/25_aebccaed_data"
removing transaction from pool : "/24_bedeedbe_data"
removing transaction from pool : "/25_aebccaed_data"
KPackageKit(6879) KpkAddRm::~KpkAddRm: Saving filters settings

[dibl]

Re: kpackagekit

no packages are shown.
whenever i try to do anything i get:
"Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1"

i have no issues whatsoever with synaptic.
which i end up using every time, since package management in kubuntu seems to have no hope.
i checked my packages and dependencies.
i cannot see anything macroscopically wrong.
must say i have jj installed since alpha something, so it's not a clean beta installation.
but kpackagekit didn't work before either, anyway.
any ideas?

I'm just getting started with 9.04, so this may be "first impression" -- but, if you open KMenu>System Settings>Add and Remove Software (which used to truly suck), it now puts you into KPackagedit. It doesn't show any packages immediately, but there's a drop-down window on the upper right of the GUI, and if you drop it you have the "official categories" of all software, and then if you choose a category, it appears to do a good job of showing you all the packages for that category. Seems to work OK here.

P.S. Any computer operation that assumes a priori knowledge by the operator of the "official categories" as established by the developers is not exactly a helpful approach ....

[Oceanwatcher]

Re: kpackagekit

Before I could get it to work, I had to click the refresh button. After a loooong time (my line is EXTREMELY slow), it was updated and showed me available updates.

I still have hopes for this program as it could make updating and installing very easy for newcomers.

[jankushka]

Re: kpackagekit

KMenu>System Settings>Add and Remove Software (which used to truly suck)...

that works here too.
although i don't see the "official categories" drop down you talk about.
there's nothing in the upper right of "my" gui.

but is this kpackagekit?
i have an entry under kmenu->applications->system->kpackagekit

i thought it was some some of qt port of synaptic.
or so i hoped...

[dibl]

Re: kpackagekit

I will attempt to paste in an image of what I'm seeing. Where you see the red circle is a drop-down menu of "classifications" (Communications, Utilities, Office, Graphics, Internet, etc.). If you choose a category, then you see the available packages for that category.

[jankushka]

Re: kpackagekit

alright.
yeah.
that's kpackagekit.
thanks dibl.

thanks everyone.

it seems the latest batch of updates fixed it.
it works now.
well, sort of...
we should ask to add a "no-category" category to get all the packages.
since the "all packages" category doesn't seem to do much...

guess it's "apt-get install synaptic" yet again.

cheers folks.
i'll flag this thread as "solved".

ps:
is it just me that hates this "+" and "-" thing in the new tools?

[dibl]

Re: kpackagekit

is it just me that hates this "+" and "-" thing in the new tools?

Not just you, Jan.

[flarson]

Re: [SOLVED] kpackagekit

Not only you. I might not hate them so bad except they seem backward to me.

[jankushka]

Re: [SOLVED] kpackagekit

yeah.
exactly.
first i had the same reaction as dibl's.
i went "oh, my god what's this now?"
but i couldn't make up me mind as to what made them so awkward...so funny.
it took me a while.
they're big.
and they're...red and green (i mean, come on: red and green?)
they don't seem to fit at all, do they?
and i got it eventually.
mando_hacker's right.
they seem backward.
they look like they could have been borrowed from a different desktop environment.
a desktop environment...of the 80s!