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Apper

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Description:

Apper is the KDE interface for PackageKit (aka KPackageKit)

Apper is able to manage packages, applications and updates in a cross-distribution way thanks to the PackageKit project. Providing Linux users a single application that they can learn and use in whatever distribution they are.

Hope you enjoy Apper, and please report bugs, make wishes so we can improve this application.

BUGS goes to bugs.kde.org

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IMPORTANT:
Apper itself can do nothing without PackageKit.
So have it installed before.
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INSTALLATION

Well now that you decide to install it. Be careful :D no warranty is given..

Requirements:
AFTER INSTALLING LOGOUT AND LOGIN SO KDED CAN LOAD THE Apper PLUGIN.
(also, make uninstall #from your old build dir)

PackageKit >= 0.8.5
KDELibs headers of Kde4
KDEWorskpace
KDE >= 4.3

Compiling:
- $ cd Apper # where you extracted it
- $ mkdir build && cd build
- $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/ # you must install in /usr otherwise KDE won't find it
- $ make
- $ su
- # make install

Enjoy :)

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dantti
12 years ago

Hi, you're probably right, we forgot to turn off the animation when expanding, i'm planning a new release as soon as my work with polkit-kde is "finished", we have some new features and this is most likely to disappear.
But thanks for commenting.

madsheytan
12 years ago

Hi, does it works with slack? Or will it be?

dantti
12 years ago

For this to work with slackware it simple needs a backend that knows slapt or installpkg, then it's possible to install .tgz files or if slapt suppport is added you would use repositories. ( i don't really know slapt cause when i used slack it was only installpkg)

but afaik there is no such implementation right now, so if you are a dev you can check the docs on how to create a backend at packagekit.org website yourself :D

madsheytan
12 years ago

I wish i could, but i'm not a dev :| Maybe someone will write it.

Mar91
12 years ago

I solved the crash with some updates :)

I have tried to compile the new version, and i get:
http://pastebin.com/d6e3ff761

Qt 4.4.3
Kde 4 Factory (4.1.X)
opensuse 11.0

dantti
12 years ago

Hi, your problem is because you don't have the latest version of packagekit-qt installed. NOTE that this is not shipped anymore with the tar ball so it's best to go to http://maison.mymadcat.com/~madcat/qpackagekit/ and download the last version.

Soon it'll be available at packagekit.org website. in the meanwhile you can grab there.

Mar91
12 years ago

Didn't solve. Same problem.I installed qpackagekit 0.31 from sources and i have still the same problem. Isn't this a qt problem ?

dantti
12 years ago

hmm i have some ppl that compiled fine on opensuse, and the error for me is that i changed some bits in the lib so this is what is look like.
I'd say to you make sure you're installing in /usr try cleaning up your builds, and if none of it helps try #packagekit on free node we can try to help..

deadbabylon
12 years ago

We'll likely want to make kpackagekit the default graphical package manager in the upcoming release of Fedora (10) (on the KDE side, of course). But one problem ATM is that kpackagekit is only available in english and it seems not to be prepared for translations (eg. no .po files are available). But there seems to be some i18n markups in the source.
So my question is: What's the best way to translate kpackagekit? Or do you want to release a minor update with proper .po files in the meantime?

dantti
12 years ago

Hi, well this is a question i've been asking to the guys that are already packaging it to fedora (btw are you?), the thing is: i added this "markup" everywhere so it's ready to be translated, but i don't know how translations works :P
i never translated a program nor created a program to be translated, i can also translate it to portuguese br, but i don't know from where to start....
Any help is really appreciate, we also got a new contributor who might know how to do that, i'll ask him.
Cheers.

deadbabylon
12 years ago

No, I'm not the packager. For the translations we need the .pot templates. Because you've added kpackagekit to Playground they are now available:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/l10n-kde4/templates/messages/playground-sysadmin/kpackagekit.pot?revision=871981&view=markup
But before starting the translations the misspellings should be fixed first.

I for myself also don't have much experience with translations. But I think rdieter and/or Kevin_Kofler in #fedora-kde on freenode could help you with that.

Mar91
12 years ago

Crashing on Opensuse 11.0 :(

[email protected]:~> kpackagekit
SHOW UI!
GO UI!
enumFromString ( Action ) : converted "" to "Action" , enum value -1
enumFromString ( Group ) : converted "" to "" , enum value -1
enumFromString ( Filter ) : converted "" to "Filter" , enum value -1
enumFromString ( Action ) : converted "" to "Action" , enum value -1
Error, cannot create transaction proxy
New transaction with tid ""
process 3570: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "path != NULL" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1070.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
<unknown program name>(3569)/: Communication problem with "KPackageKit" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "

[email protected]:~> KCrash: Application 'kpackagekit' crashing...
sock_file=/home/marco/.kde4/socket-linux-odym/kdeinit4__0

[email protected]:~>

Compiled from sources ( last version on kde-apps ). Kde 4.1 unstable

dantti
12 years ago

Oh, i just figured out what is your problem.

You don't have packagekit working. If it's really installed make sure you have a version 0.3 or greater.

dantti
12 years ago

can you please provide wich version of qt and packagekit are you using?

Thanks.

kilah
12 years ago

-- checking for module 'polkit-dbus'
-- package 'polkit-dbus' not found
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i have instaled :
Setting up libpolkit2 (0.9-1)
Setting up libpolkit-dbus2 (0.9-1)

My distro is debian sid

dantti
12 years ago

Dude, when compiling software always install the *-dev files, so libpolkit-dbus-dev is needed :)

Have fun.

artemisfowl2007
12 years ago

I really like KPackageKit and I would like it to see grow even better.

I could probably contribute if time permits, but for the time being, I would like to know where I should file bug reports and ask a couple of questions.

So, doesn't KPackageKit have an official web site or an official project page?

dantti
12 years ago

Well a kind of official website is www.packagekit.org, i have just got a kde svn account so i'll probably put it there as soon as possible, but you can use this space here to post bug reports or send me messages.
At the end of the week i'll release a new version with file install support so if you have some bugs i can try to fix till there.
Thanks.

xadras
12 years ago

Hi dantti,

your programm looks really great, but unfortunately it doesnt run on my system (Debian sid with kde from experimentall).

The compiling and installation of packagekit 2.2 and kpackagekit was running without problems. But if I click on "Add and Remove Software" the application crashes. Maybe its a packagekit problem. If i run the command packagekitd as root i got the following output:

TI:05:45:21 TH:0x807a3e8 FI:pk-main.c FN:main,266
- cannot continue, backend invalid

Gts Xadras

dantti
12 years ago

You're right the app will crash if the backend is invalid, try to use that line to compile packagekit and also make sure that the ..prefix/etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf has the line default backend=apt
i'll try to see how to warn the user that packagekit is not working or running.
Thanks.

dantti
12 years ago

hmmm i'll try to see if packagekit having an invalid backend make the gui crash...
On my Debian with kde from experimental too i use this line to compile packagekit:
./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/daniel/PackageKit/pkbin/ --with-security-framework=polkit --with-default-backend=apt --enable-apt --enable-dummy --enable-local --enable-tests --enable-gtk-doc

after this going well i myself COPY (don't move) the files in that pkbin dir to it's location, i don't recommend you using /usr in the prefix of packagekit cause it have some fedora specifc stuff that will make your debian dirs a little different.

there is a command pkcon that allows you to try packagekit:
pkcon search name k3b
if this one runs ok then probably my app has a problem...

xadras
12 years ago

Thanks for your quick reponse. I have set the DefaultBackend to apt and i have run the following commands:

make distclean
./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/xadras/PackageKit-0.2.2/pkbin/ --with-security-framework=polkit --with-default-backend=apt --enable-apt --enable-dummy --enable-local --enable-tests --enable-gtk-doc
make
su
make install

but there is no change:

packagekitd
TI:10:06:56 TH:0x807a3e8 FI:pk-main.c FN:main,266
- cannot continue, backend invalid

pkcon search name amarok

Command failed
Error:
failed to get a TID: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

dantti
12 years ago

try editing this file: /home/xadras/PackageKit-0.2.2/pkbin/etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf

on pkbin dir do something like this:
cp -r etc* /etc/
cp -r include/* /usr/include/
cp -r lib/* /usr/lib/
cp -r share/* /usr/share/
cp -r var/* /var/

at the end restart dbus

xadras
12 years ago

i have done your proposal. But unfortunately there is no change. I have tried also to install the ubuntu 0.2.2 package, but with no success, too.

dantti
12 years ago

did you get the git version on the pk web site?
are you sure you have all the deps?
here is a list of what deps i remember i had to install in order to compile pk, also make sure after the autogen you see the list were apt backend is enabled and the default
if none work try #packagekit on freenode for an online help :)

./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/daniel/projetos/PackageKit/pkbin/ --with-security-framework=polkit --with-default-backend=apt --enable-apt --enable-dummy --enable-local --enable-tests --enable-gtk-doc

required
libapt-pkg-doc
libglib2.0-dev
libsqlite3-dev
libdbus-1-dev
libdbus-glib-1-dev
policykit
python-apt
libapt-pkg-dev
libpolkit-dbus-dev
libpolkit-dev
libpolkit-grant-dev
>> apt2
python-xapian
python-dbus

Good luck

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