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init7

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Registered: 2015-01-08

Posts: 6

Replacement for package manager and packagekit (Gnome)

Hello everyone,

following up to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191276 (removal of packagekit to be able to upgrade pacman to 4.2), and given the fact that packagekit had been flagged deprecated for quite some time,
does anyone have a suggestion for a desktop replacement for gnome-packagekit?

Thanks in advance

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Replacement for package manager and packagekit (Gnome)

Does gnome-packagekit still build?

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,330

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Re: Replacement for package manager and packagekit (Gnome)

The packagekit PKGBUILD has been updated.  Just rebuild it - it works with pacman >4.2 now.

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shadow82

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Registered: 2013-06-02

Posts: 11

Re: Replacement for package manager and packagekit (Gnome)

I`m using octopi and octopi-notifier on gnome

nbvcxz

Member

From: Poland

Registered: 2007-12-29

Posts: 202

Re: Replacement for package manager and packagekit (Gnome)

For GTK based environment I use pamac-aur. Simple packet manager, update manager and update notifier (in fact for update notification I use aarchup with systemd timer scheduling)

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