Bug 486096

Summary:	"Could not find or read package" error incessantly, irreproducibly, and incorrectly
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	fake.name
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	minor	CC:	aleixpol, bugseforuns, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.0.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description fake.name 2024-04-24 23:52:13 UTC

SUMMARY
Somewhere between 20% and 100% of applications available in discover return an error message of "Error: could not find or read package $PACKAGE_NAME "  when clicked on. This does not effect whether or not said package can be installed, mind; it's just annoying boilerplate; sound and fury, signifying nothing. 
It cannot be reproduced in any meaningful fashion for a single package, even within a session of using the application.
Thus the error message is incessant, yet irreproducible and incorrectly displayed! 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Arch, Zen 6.8.7
KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.1.0
Qt Version: 6.7

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-05-03 18:26:19 UTC

Unfortunately PackageKit support in Discover is very poor due to a confluence of factors that are 100% outside of KDE's direct control. So much so that we're strongly considering labeling support for Arch in Discover experimental and unsupported; see https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/merge_requests/829.