Hi,
It seems apper disappeared with the last updates a couple days back.
I went to reinstall it and it isn’t compatible with plasma any longer.
Will it be updated or is it gone for good?
Greg
Replaced by plasma5-pk-updates AFAIU. Do you have that installed?
I do have plasma5-pk-updates installed and found software management in yast.
I’ll miss apper but will get along fine. Apper was easier to use than software management for most things.
Well, plasma5-pk-updates is a Plasma 5 front-end for PackageKit and has a ‘Software Updates’ widget. It works essentially the same way Apper did. Do you not have this? The YaST software management utilities have always been around, so no change there.
FWIW, I don’t particularly like desktop update notifiers, and usually just use zypper instead.
I use the notifier just to know when updates are available but like you i use zypper to apply them. Software management or apper was is used only when I’m looking for something I want to install or remove
Me too. I used to kill apper because it used to lock up my access to zypper and Yast software module. But the plasma tool is relatively benign and I left it intact because I like to get the heads-up to run zypper. In the old no-apper situation, I had to run “zypper dup -D” and wait through the refresh cycle just to see if it was worth running zypper dup, and that was a bother.
I used to uninstall and “blacklist” (otherwise it often wanted to be reinstalled in Yast software) apper and have the replacement one disabled in the system tray settings.
There are 2 things I haven’t liked about them. One is the “interference” with Yast/zypper. The other is that compared to my preferred method of Yast/Software/Package/All Packages/Update if newer version available (yes it’s long winded but that’s what I do…) is that I’ve never found them that “complete”. I don’t know whether this is because they would need to be notified of repositories I add manually in Yast or whether they only report updates of a certain level (eg. security updates) but they have only ever reported some of the available updates for me.
You should be able to install apper again if you uninstall (and lock) plasma5-pk-updates.
But you’ll lose the update notifier then, as Apper’s applet only works in Plasma4, it has not been ported yet to Plasma5.
All good answers and I’m thinking leaving it as is will be best. Everything works well and I like most the changes coming online with plasma 5