[packagekit] issues with packagekit

D.H. Bahr dbahr at estudiantes.uci.cu
Tue Dec 1 09:11:41 PST 2009


according to the feature matrix on 
http://www.packagekit.org/pk-matrix.html portage should be able to 
search by name ...

El 12/01/09 22:07, Adrien Bustany escribió:
> El 01/12/09 14:07, D.H. Bahr escribió:
>> I installed locate and search for the file ... apparently me telling 
>> configure to use /usr as prefix mixed up somwhere and it put the file 
>> under /usr/etc/dbus-1/system.d instead of /etc/dbus-1/system.d
>>
>> Now the daemon starts and i can use pkcon ...
>>
>> i made a
>>
>> pkcon refresh:
>> darion-laptop build # pkcon refresh
>> Refreshing cache              [=========================]
>> Waiting for authentication    [=========================]
>> Starting                      [=========================]
>> Generating package lists      [=========================]
>>
>> and after I searched for a package but it won't find it ..
>>
>> take a look here:
>> darion-laptop build # eix gtkmm
>> [U] dev-cpp/gtkmm
>>      Available versions:
>>     (1.2)    1.2.9-r2
>>     (2)    2.2.12
>>     (2.4)    2.16.0 ~2.18.2
>>     {debug doc examples test}
>>      Installed versions:  2.12.7(2.4)(21:23:55 10/04/09)(-debug -doc 
>> -examples -test)
>>      Homepage: http://www.gtkmm.org
>>      Description:         C++ interface for GTK+2
>>
>> darion-laptop build # pkcon search name gtkmm
>> Searching by name             [=========================]
>> Starting                      [=========================]
>>
>> am i using it wrong?
> That would be a problem in the backend ?
>>
>> El 12/01/09 21:52, Adrien Bustany escribió:
>>> El 01/12/09 18:49, Matthias Klumpp escribió:
>>>    
>>>> On Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:31:07 +0000, "D.H. Bahr"<dbahr at estudiantes.uci.cu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      
>>>>> yeap .. configure and make as regular user; make install as root...
>>>>> otherwise i wouldn't be able to install it on /usr I guess .. let me
>>>>> browse the tar to see if i find the file there
>>>>>
>>>>>        
>>>> Of course you can drop the file into the dir - but it's much better to find
>>>> out why it was not installed.
>>>> You configured PackageKit with
>>>> ./configure --enable-emerge prefix=/usr
>>>> right?
>>>> Do you have locate installed? Is there a file named
>>>> org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf installed on your system?
>>>> (locate org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf in Terminal)
>>>> I don't know much about Nova Linux (it's the Cuba-Linux, right?), but on
>>>> Debian "locate" is installed by default.
>>>> Maybe the file was installed into /usr/local by accident?
>>>>
>>>>      
>>> I think it's the most probable, please look in ./configure --help, there
>>> should be a --dbus-service-dir switch or something similar
>>>    
>>>> Cheers
>>>>    Matthias
>>>>
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