no graphical update kpackagekit

[buzzmandt]

It dissapeared a couple weeks ago and thought it was temporary, now i'm wondering if it's just me. refresh updates in kpackagekit is no longer there, I have to use terminal and sudo apt-get update. anyone?

[Snowhog]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

Something was either remove (some dependency?) and/or wasn't fully installed/configured.

Open a console and type:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update

See if this doesn't help the situation.

[Yuri sss]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

Kpackagekit is just junk.
Install Synaptic and use that instead:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

[buzzmandt]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

snowhog, thanks for the reply, here's the output.

buzzmandt@buzzdev:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for buzzmandt: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree    
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

been without the update button for a couple weeks, figured it'd be getting fixed by now. would like to hear from others that are using maverick kubuntu


yuri:
I agree kpackagekit is not the best thing, but it is getting better and the maverick version I was actually quite liking until i lost the ability to manually update/refresh repos. that's gotta come back
However, having said that, I usually use terminal myself, apt-get update/apt-get upgrade (or dist-upgrade if applicable and with caution). Kpackagekit is what is used and comes default, i would like it to work at least in it's most basic form, this is testing and default packages should be tested and reported as necessary.

[Snowhog]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

Verify that you (still) have the following packages installed:

update-notifier-common
update-manager-kde

[claydoh]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

right-click on the white space, and you will get the option to refresh packages. I have actually spoken to KPK's developer about this issue (briefly), I plan on filing a bug report on it somewhere.

Kpackagekit is just junk.
Install Synaptic and use that instead:

sudo apt-get install synaptic

Obviously you have not tried it recently in Maverick :P , there have been a ton of recent changes in KPK, some of which currently are Kubuntu-exclusive. It is not Junk anymore, imo. Recommending another tool is quite fine, but in this instance maybe helping the OP use the quite functional software first is a better idea?

No offense intended, but the "it's junk" bit gets kinda old :/

[craig10x]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

Have to totally agree with Claydoh...I'm running the live cd of Kubuntu 10.10 as i post this...and i've checked earlier editions of Kubuntu in the past (such as 10.04 for example) and at that time i would probably agree that it "sucked"...but the new version in 10.10 is a whole different "ball game"...i think it's now EXCELLENT...Look so much better, works so much better..like the difference between night and day...I downloaded some programs with it and it was great...very smooth, fast and no problems at all...I didn't even have any desire to add Package Manager...felt like i didn't need it at all..

Only thing is you have to make sure to check the boxes for all the software sources, that will ensure getting all the programs you would if using the package manager...once i did that, it looked like i had access to everything....

I also like the new Ubuntu fonts which are included in this release...

Though i am currently running Mint 9 KDE, i must say that i am very tempted to install the final of Kubuntu 10.10...it feels very smooth, polished and seems pretty bug free...Very VERY impressed

[buzzmandt]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

thanks claydoh, glad to know someone's on it.

kpackagekit in maverick is many times better than previous versions.

[claydoh]

Re: no graphical update kpackagekit

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253194

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubun...it/+bug/648211