Changing defaults: Removing KPackageKit

[Rog131]

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An Example

There are packages:

• 1 kpackagekit
  KDE package management tool using PackageKit
• 2 packagekit
  provides a software installation daemon
• 3 packagekit-backend-apt
  APT backend for packagekit
• 4 libpackagekit-qt-12
  Library for accessing PackageKit using Qt.
• 5 libpackagekit-glib2-12
  Advanced library for accessing PackageKit using GLib
• 6 python-packagekit
  PackageKit Python bindings

(earlier > Topic: 2,170 .desktop files!)

• 7 app-install-data
  Ubuntu applications (data files)

Simulation:

sudo apt-get purge -s kpackagekit packagekit packagekit-backend-apt libpackagekit-qt-12
 libpackagekit-glib2-12 python-packagekit app-install-data

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
app-install-data* kpackagekit* kubuntu-debug-installer*
libpackagekit-glib2-12* libpackagekit-qt-12* packagekit*
packagekit-backend-apt* python-packagekit*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Adding to removed packages:

kubuntu-debug-installer
Debug package installer for Kubuntu

This installer permits drkonqi, KDE's automatic backtrace and bug report
utility to try find and install missing debug symbols, so that backtraces
become more useful.

The debug symbols (-dbg) can be installed without kubuntu-debug-installer.


Purging 8 files
(configuration files are deleted too)

sudo apt-get purge kpackagekit packagekit packagekit-backend-apt libpackagekit-qt-12
 libpackagekit-glib2-12 python-packagekit app-install-data kubuntu-debug-installer

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following packages will be REMOVED:
app-install-data* kpackagekit* kubuntu-debug-installer*
libpackagekit-glib2-12* libpackagekit-qt-12* packagekit*
packagekit-backend-apt* python-packagekit*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 8 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
After this operation, 32.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

You could...

After the remove you could still use the software-properties-kde.

Alt + F2 and: kdesudo software-properties-kde



or you could add it to the K-Menu; Right click the Kicoff Application Launcher button > Menu Editor.


If the Kubuntu built-in notification system is not working without KPackageKit the information of the upgradeable packages can be looked with the command:

/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --human-readable

23 package can be updated.
0 updates are security updates.

and it is possible to add an own notification system with launcher for your package manager.



Example script (System Settings > Startup and Shutdown)

#!/bin/sh 


# Check interval (seconds), if there are no upgradeable packages
# 5 min = 300 s
T1=300


# Nagging interval (seconds)
# 30 min = 1800 s
T2=1800


while [ 1 ]
do
  sleep $T1

  CHECK=`/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check --human-readable`
  UPDATE=` echo $CHECK | cut -d " " -f 1 - `

  if [ $UPDATE -gt 0 ]; then
   kdialog --title "Upgrades available" --warningyesnocancel "$CHECK \n \n Launch the Synaptic Package Manager ?"

   case "$?" in 
   0)
     # Yes - start the synaptic
     `kdesudo "synaptic --upgrade-mode"`
     sleep $T1
     ;;
   1)
     # No - don't start the synaptic - will continue to nag
     sleep $T2
     ;;
   2)
     # Cancel - stop nagging
     break
     ;;
   esac
  fi
done

With the Muon the case 0 is:

   0)
     # Yes - start the muon
     muon
     sleep $T1
     ;;