(gnome-software) packagekit daemon disappeared

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Hello, i am actually on openmandriva 6 gnome, and loving it, also the yum extender is very very nice, but i would like to use gnome-software and it does not work

it installs flatpaks fine, but everytime i try an rpm it throws me a notification saying “packagekit daemon disappeared”

how do i solve this?i tried reinstalling packagekit but didn’t help

any suggestion?

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We tend to shy away from packagekit and things that use it because it doesn’t do a good job of keeping it’s metadata updated or in sync with the repos. So, it would not surprise me if that feature is turned off in gnome-software. We had to patch Discover to deal with how the system gets updated, and that may be true of the GNOME flavor of app store.

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ok, so there is no solution to that?apart from using the terminal of course

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It appears work was already done to cut packagekit out of the equation:

Without seeing the recipe, I can’t really say if we are building with this daemon or not. @AngryPenguin will be the best resource.

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But also, this:

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i read that, but i also think that would be shooting themselves in the foots, i’ll be honest

anyway, well if there is a possible build of the packagekit daemon then it’s nice, and i’m not in a hurry, so if there’s no better solution let’s wait that :slight_smile:

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I mentioned the one that would know the most about it in terms of our GTK packages.

I agree Fedora/RH would be making a huge mistake, but they have been doing a lot of that for over a decade. Which is why IBM bought them.