Well I have been busy with other pursuits and have not had the opportunity to do much on my systems except very late at night. Late nights aren't always good when you have other things pending in the early morning.
I'm posting because Autostatic (whoever you may be) posted a comment “http://www.dhoytt.com/mainblog/archives/2008/05/packagekit-new-default-manager.html#comments” to my initial post about “Pirut” being removed on how get the “Pirut” install bits and install Pirut of course.
Link to Pirut FC9 : http://ia64.koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/pirut/1.3.30/2.fc9/noarch/pirut-1.3.30-2.fc9.noarch.rpm
Well I installed Pirut from the link posted and it is working just fine.
Packagekit's Flaky Operation on New Fedora 9 Install
Since my initial post I had also installed “Pirut” on my backup web server because outside of “Packagekit's” lack of features I liked Fedora 9 and there was a version of a software package that came with Fedora 9 I really wanted.
On this second install of Fedora 9 Packagekit exhibited behavior I did not see or could reproduce on my first Fedora 9 install.
On the second Fedora 9 install Packagekit would show it had updates I would then go click on the Packagekit icon on my toolbar and it would flash for a second and go away.
I even ran the Packagekit debugger I got from “http://packagekit.org/pk-bugs.html” and looked in my log files every time this happened and I couldn't find the reason why Packagekit would flash and go away without letting me interface with the GUI.
This behavior did not occur on my first Fedora 9 install and went away after a reboot on my second Fedora 9 install but after the initial usage after a reboot Packagekit would once again flash on the screen and not let me interact with it's GUI.
I finally left Packagekit alone to deal with time sensitive non-computer issues. I was still deciding however to possibly go back to Fedora 8 or hope someone came up with a nice update of Packagekit or the Pirut Fedora 9 bits or start using the Fedora 8 Pirut bits.
Thanks to the post by Autostatic pointing to the Fedora 9 bits I can patiently await the new Packagekit when its fully functional
Pirut on Fedora 9
Pirut seems to be working fine in Fedora 9 so far. Pirut asks if you want to install source channels for Fedora 8.92 (beta sources possibly) but I said no. Pirut works fine after that and of course you can edit out any sources later in “Software Package Manager”. I have been unable to get this version of Pirut “Software Package Manager” to show available software from the repositories though.
Synaptic Package Manager
While looking for Pirut/Software Package Manager in the programs section I found “Synaptic Package Manager”! The “Synaptic Package Manager” GUI looks just like the Pirut/Software Package Manager I just installed but also shows the available packages.
Applications Locations
You can find Pirut Software Package Manager after the install:
Applications -> System Tools -> Software Package Manager
You can find Pirut Software Updater after the install:
Applications -> System Tools -> Software Updater
You can find Synaptic Package Manager:
Applications -> System Tools -> Synaptic Package Manager
Well looks like I will be using Pirut/Software Updater to update my system for now and Synaptic Package Manager to install any new packages while I await Packagekit's growth. I'll keep playing and see what I run into next!
