[packagekit] app-install 0.1.0 released!

[Jean Hubbard]

Got-ya, thanks Matthias.
Pretty cool.

Regards 
Jean




> Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 18:35:08 +0200
> From: matthias at nlinux.org
> To: packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [packagekit] app-install 0.1.0 released!
> 
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010 02:18:47 +1200, Jean Hubbard <jean_p57 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Just out of curiousity, 
> > 
> > On an Ubuntu system using packagekit and packagekit-gnome the setup
> looks
> > something like,
> > 
> > backend-apt  -> packagekit -> packagekit-gnome.
> > 
> > Where does app-install fit in relevant to all this. Is it like a
> Software
> > Sources or more for installing packages(gdebi) or perhaps even like
> dpkg?
> AppInstall just provides information which packages contain which
> applications. It makes PK frontends able to offer installation/removals of
> applications through the package management.
> E.g. if the package "vlc" contains the application "VLC Media Player",
> GNOME-PackageKit will not display only the package "vlc" but also an entrs
> "VLC Media Player" with the application's icon, description etc.
> You can compare AppInstall to the data the Ubuntu SoftwareCenter.
> GNOME-PackageKit will have simmilar possibilities like USC if AppInstall is
> included.
> Cheers
>   Matthias
> 
> > Sorry im still trying to understand how package management fits together
> > in Linux. 
> > 
> > Regards
> > Jean.
> 
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