On Tuesday 16 March 2010 01:11:18 am Chris Penn wrote: > You are trying to avoid apt-get/Synaptic and use KPackageKit instead?
I'm using Kubuntu. It appears that when I do updates, etc., KPackageKit gets run. When I run Synaptic from Kubuntu's KDE desktop it's an ugly environment which doesn't tell me anything about any package. When I run KPackageKit I get a short synopsis of every program. So yes. > regardless of the GUI application you are using, I would think apt or > dpkg is playing a part when installing binaries from the repositories. > Are you opening KPackageKit with sudo? I'm opening KPackageKit from the KDE menu system as installed by Kubuntu 9.10. It always worked until recently. Yesterday was the first time I saw the problem. It's always put up a box that asked me to authenticate. I do. Until yesterday it always continued. Beginning yesterday it started failing. When I run $ sudo kpackagekit it works as it should; it doesn't ask me for a password since I've already entered it. Obviously this isn't a show-stopper today, but it IS another indication to me that kde 4.x as installed in kubuntu is seriously broken. There are lots of other examples, but for the purpose of this thread, we'll stick to this one. Thanks for your points. Jeff -- Jeff Lasman Post Office Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only Phone +1 909 266-9209, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html"; _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
