Summary: | kpackage hangs for a while and it doesn't show any package - kde4.2 | ||
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Product: | kpackage | Reporter: | Maurizio <mrzfbb> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Toivo Pedaste <toivo> |
Status: | RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | hcmeyer, rdieter |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Debian testing | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Maurizio
2009-01-30 23:51:41 UTC
KPackage seems to be currently unmaintained :( I think I have this bug on a fedora 11, it is caused by the smart backend not being initialized. After installing kpackage and trying it three times, I installed smart-gui and ran it. smart had been installed by yum as a dependant of kpackege. When smart-gui started, it popped up several diaglog boxes asking me if I wanted to connect channels to the yum repos I had defined, I replied yes to all of them, smart ran normally (I guess, I gid not tell it to do anything, and ended it). After smart channels had been set, kpackage works, displaying lists of installed packages and updates. I think kpackage cannot tell smart is not initialized, and cannot kickstart smart when needed. See redhat bugzilla report 507938. KPackage was recently removed from KDE SC (since 4.4 beta2) as it was completely broken and unmaintained. Most of the common GNU/Linux distributions offer their own tools to deal with packages, and KDE is working on an universal package manager replacement named "Shaman" (to superseed KPackageKit) Closing the KPackage's bug reports as UNMAINTAINED. Regards Thanks, I had installed kpackage because I remembered it could handle .deb's. When chrome browser was first released, there were no .rpm's available for fedora, I was trying to use a back door. I will check out Shaman when released. |