I have been trying to use yast, but it keeps getting blocked by pakagekit. I’ve been reading online that there are other people who have the problem as well and that they just remove it or disable it. I tried to follow the methods that are explained in those posts, but nothing seems to be working.
I have just started using linux a few days ago and am thus very bad at navigating through all the different settings and whatnot. So if anyone would be able to walk me through the process of fixing this, it would be much appreciated.
Sorry, I assumed he asked for some reconfiguring or other instructions (in any case less dratic then just removing).
But it is as Phani says: YaST > Software > Software Management, then packagekit in the Serach field, it will appear at right, right-click on the box and choose to remove it.
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> phanisvara;2460234 Wrote:
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>> um, that’s exactly what he was asking detailed instructions for.
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> Sorry, I assumed he asked for some reconfiguring or other instructions
> (in any case less dratic then just removing).
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> But it is as Phani says: YaST > Software > Software Management, then
> packagekit in the Serach field, it will appear at right, right-click on
> the box and choose to remove it.
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i haven’t had packagekit or apper installed in ages, so i can’t remember
exactly how this went.
but i assume when he tries to remove packagekit, there will be a few
‘complaints:’
“<other package> needs packagekit for something or other. options: don’t
remove kpackagekit - remove that <other package> as well - break that
<other package>”
then you should choose to remove those other packages; most likely “apper”
will be among them, which is a frontend for kpackagekit and should be
removed, too. if in doubt, ask.
I am not sure here, but most complaints about PackageKit were because Apper was used. When people deinstalled Apper, everything went back to “normal” becaue Apper was the only one that used PackageKit. I do not know what the IP realy experiences when he says “it keeps getting blocked by pakagekit.”. But I guess again that it is an Active Apper.
Thus it might be better to just remove Apper and let PackageKit on the system (doing nothing and thus doing no blocking)
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> I am not sure here, but most complaints about PackageKit were because
> Apper was used. When people deinstalled Apper, everything went back to
> “normal” becaue Apper was the only one that used PackageKit. I do not
> know what the IP realy experiences when he says “it keeps getting
> blocked by pakagekit.”. But I guess again that it is an Active Apper.
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> Thus it might be better to just remove Apper and let PackageKit on the
> system (doing nothing and thus doing no blocking)
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i think you’re right, without apper packagekit won’t start. still, i got
so annoyed at one time that i removed them all.
the message telling you why you can’t run YAST or zypper talks about
packagekit, as in the present case, so i had it on my mind at the time.
i think one or two libraries of the packagekit group need(s) to stay on
the system because, required by something else. but leaving all of
packagekit alone and only removing apper should work, too.