It's packagekit-gnome, not 'gnome-packagekit'. Worked fine for me. Are we supposed to be critiquing the software? It was a bit minimalist, and the frames in the windows are not resize-able. It doesn't seem as full featured as Synaptic, though it has a good look to it. It's info area is better laid out, and a live search feature. The repo listing is better in Synaptic.
In short, I could see it being very useful and competitive with Synaptic, with a few tweaks and cleanups. On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:05 AM, Sebastian Heinlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > The APT backend for PackageKit [1] has made a lot of progress recently > in the 0.3.x series. It nearly supports all features of PackageKit. > > Highlights of the 0.3.x series are: > > * Search for codecs and mime type handlers > * Local file installation > * Change log for updates > * Group support > * Repository handling > * Notification of new distro releases > * A lot of bug fixes > > See the feature matrix for more infromation: > > http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html > > Currently we have got a quite outdated 0.2.4 version in Intrepid. > Furthermore sharing the same version would help to reduce maintenance > burden, since Fedora plans to ship 0.3.2 in the next release. But before > proposing a freeze exception I would like to have some feedback. > > So if you are interested in this piece of software and want to push > packagekit forward please test it on your system and report bugs that > you may encounter. > > You can find packages of the upcoming 0.3.2 release for Hardy and > Intrepid in this Personal Package Archive: > > https://launchpad.net/~packagekit/+archive<https://launchpad.net/%7Epackagekit/+archive> > > Add the repository and install the packages packagekit and > gnome-packagekit. > > The new applications will appear in the System -> Administration menu. > > The obligatory screenshot: > > > http://www.glatzor.de/fileadmin/files/screenshots/packagekit/Bildschirmfoto.png > > Cheers, > > Sebastian > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > > -- Luke L.
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