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menulibre
MenuLibre is an advanced menu editor that provides modern features in a clean, easy-to-use interface.
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- "pkcon update" with option "-y" causes "Fatal error: Failed to obtain authentication."
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Discovery gives "The PackageKit daemon has crashed" error suddenly (Arch)
The PackageKit crash is a problem in PackageKit itself. You'll want to get a sybolicated backtrace of the crash and submit a bug report to https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/issues/.
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I updated a Tumbleweed installation almost 2 years old without a single hiccup
The original patch author described another issue from locked packages being installed as a recommends dependency. https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/557
- Fedora Package Management
- Is PackageKit any good and are there alternatives?
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Anyone know why PackageKit blocks Zypper while updating it's cache?
PackageKit-backend-zypp is weird. Some logic is delegated to libzypp so it's however libzypp supports/implements a feature, OTOH some logic requires the PK backend to reimplement. If it doesn't it results in issues like this one https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/557. I don't think this approach is reliable.
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I fianlly managed to repair my openSUSE installation (took me 2 days)!
The source code.
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Arch Repos and Gnome Software
ALPM integration is not a direct Arch project and done by third party on an as available basis. It might get improvements it might not. It does look quite active https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/commits/main/backends/alpm FWIW but in general Arch isn't really designed with these things in mind. The other bigger distributions also invest/used to invest a lot of time for package descriptions and the like while explicitly and primarily relies on the appstream database for information which may or may not be up to date.
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How fundamentally different is Fedora vs Debian ?
I think what OP is using for updates is the gnome software application which is based on the more general packagekit framework (KDE's discover uses the same framework). And one feature of packagekit is the ability to install updates at shutdown (Sorry, can't find a better link in a quick search)
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Does GNOME Software remove dependencies after uninstalling an app?
Luckily, that's on track to finally being fixed. It's been fixed in PackageKit and should only be a matter of time before GNOME Software picks it up: https://github.com/PackageKit/PackageKit/pull/526
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The primary programming language of PackageKit is C.
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