Bug 439049

Summary:	Re-add feature to configure PackageKit repos
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	yamiyukisenpai
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen <leinir>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aleixpol, nate, silopolis
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.22.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description yamiyukisenpai 2021-06-23 07:29:15 UTC

SUMMARY
Discover used to be able to configure APT repos.  Doesn't work anymore.

OBSERVED RESULT
The only ones there are LVFS, Snap and Flatpak

EXPECTED RESULT
Should be able to enable/disable APT repos. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: KDE neon Testing Edition
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.84.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-7614-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz
Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/PCIe/SSE2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I don't normally use it, but it's something I noticed recently, and could be beneficial for newb user.

Comment 1 yamiyukisenpai 2021-06-24 22:00:32 UTC

I forgot to change the platform to specifically Neon.

On Kubuntu, I still can.

Operating System: Kubuntu 21.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.83.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.0-22-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15.3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2021-07-29 02:35:09 UTC

Yeah this feature was removed a while ago.

Comment 3 yamiyukisenpai 2021-07-29 18:31:22 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> Yeah this feature was removed a while ago.

How come?

Comment 4 Nate Graham 2021-07-29 18:47:53 UTC

IIRC, it was because of bugs, code complexity, and lack of user demand given alternative GUI methods of configuring repos in most distros.

Comment 5 Aleix Pol 2022-07-20 22:15:05 UTC

This feature is provided by the software-properties, make sure it's properly installed. It will be offered to you right from Discover.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2022-07-20 22:17:05 UTC

`software-properties` is an Ubuntu-only thing; what about those of us who use a different distro?

Comment 7 Aleix Pol 2022-07-22 00:08:28 UTC

You can ask your distro to either fix PackageKit or to create an alternative.

SUSE has YaST2/sw_source.desktop for the exact same reasons.