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Serge2702

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From: México City

Registered: 2014-01-14

Posts: 73

Using gnome-packagekit gets the same results as using pacman?

Hello, and sorry for my bad english. So, gnome 3.14 is now in the main repositories, and apparently gnome-packagekit is fully compatible with Arch Linux. But I don't know if gnome-packagekit uses pacman as a backend so using either of them gives the same results, or if it is something entirely different. I don't want to get dependencies conflicts or other errors for using both of them. The wiki only says that gnome uses the same backend as pacman (libalpm)...

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Using gnome-packagekit gets the same results as using pacman?

gnome-packagekit uses libalpm, so anything that it installs is registered in the package database.

Right now there's some issues with the libalpm backend, so we didn't move it to the extra repository yet. Package installation works, but it caches state information at this moment, so anything installed by pacman while packagekit is running is not tracked. Running pacman -Syu means that gnome-packagekit will still think there's updates for your system.

hoschi

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From: Ulm (Germany)

Registered: 2008-11-03

Posts: 458

Re: Using gnome-packagekit gets the same results as using pacman?

Good to know. I wondered why I didn't received an upgrade.