Disable kpackagekit / kupdate applet ?

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#1

Hi, I recently installed Suse 11.4 (running KDE) and my first experiences with the new updater are not great. It seems to stall, require a lot of intervention, fail, and generally not behave nicely. I would much prefer to use zypper manually as I used to but can’t find anywhere to disable this applet or process in KDE. Is there any way of disabling this so that the process and systray icon never start?

Thanks all

#2

yeah, I’m looking how to disable kpackagekit too…
it checks for updates few times a day, and icon appears in the tray which makes all other icons to shift. I don’t like this animation. I would like to update my system manually through the Yast

#3

just remove the rpm’s

the applet in settings should have an option to not automatically start as should kpackage

#4

You’d think so wouldn’t you? But they don’t seem to have.

I was trying to avoid uninstalling the packages in case of dependency issues.

#5

I have not tested it. However, there is a setting for this.

Personal settings → Startup and Shutdown → Service Manager

then uncheck “KPackageKit Service” in the list of “Startup Services”.

#6

I found a way to disable it:

  1. hit kicker menu and type into search field “kpackagekit”, run it
  2. in kpackagekit window go to settings
  3. set Check for updates to “never”

:slight_smile:

#7

Open a terminal window and do:


su -c 'rpm -e kpackagekit'
(enter rootpassword)
#8

i completely removed it from Yast package manager or from command line:

sudo zypper rm kpackagekit

enter root password and you’re done.

Note: sometimes it won’t uninstall because it might be running, just log out and log in again.

#9

I found a way to disable it:

  1. hit kicker menu and type into search field “kpackagekit”, run it
  2. in kpackagekit window go to settings
  3. set Check for updates to “never”

The tip by tosiara works. I did it with mine some time ago and it stopped messing!
But other tips suggesting uninstalling are also good.

greetings

#10

Thanks all - I went with the suggestion from tosiara as all I wanted was to switch off the behaviour, not uninstall. Seems fine now. :slight_smile:

#11

I would just ask for someone the clarify, what a “kicker menu” is? Just clearly state what you mean, would be most helpful to many of us. :slight_smile: I ended up just removing the kpackagekit via the software removal and that solved my problem. was attempting to install vbox update from oracle and it kept failing. I tried everything I could to get around this piece of ****, and finally just removed it. Hope it doesn’t come back to haunt me.

#12

On 10/04/2011 06:06 PM, lshantz wrote:
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> I would just ask for someone the clarify, what a “kicker menu” is? Just
> clearly state what you mean, would be most helpful to many of us.

agree! so, usually in the lower left corner (by default) is a icon,
normally a green headed gecko (lizard), apparently some folks call it a
‘kicker’ because it is used to kick off applications…i call it the
system menu, or main menu but kicker may be the “real name”…so left
click on it and you are looking at the “kicker menu”

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