[packagekit] How to update via dbus-send

[Richard Hughes]

On 17 January 2011 22:04, Matthew Mosesohn <mmosesoh at redhat.com> wrote:
> Here's what I want to run:
> dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.freedesktop.PackageKit
> --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/PackageKit.Transaction
> org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction.UpdateSystem string:basename
>
> Does anyone on the list have some ideas on how to accomplish that?

That's a very low level command, and probably not what you want to use.

Do you really want to just launch the gnome update client, or to
actually update a specific package straight away with interaction?

Richard.