I ended up with the same problem in the new Karmic Beta, with the easy fix of apt-get install policykit. I don't understand why this isn't a dependency of kpackagekit and installed by default.
-- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to policykit-kde in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
