Help with Apper. Can't update system.

[Lukas Middendorf]

On Saturday 03 December 2011 09:54:49 Mircea Sava wrote:
> The behavior of not recognizing the internet connection established with
> anything else but NetworkManager-gnome is present in KDE for KDE apps since
> the inception of KDE4, maybe even sooner.

I have not seen any KDE application complain about missing internet connection 
(including apper), although I do not have NetworkManager installed and running 
(Why would you want to use NetworkManager for a desktop PC with an "always on" 
wired LAN connection?). So at least it seems to default to assuming that there 
is a network connection if no NetworkManger is running.

> As for Apper, when it comes to updating the system I prefer the command line
> interface of yum; it's much faster, reliable and has a very cool verbosed
> output.
> So, su -c 'yum update' is in my opinion the best way to go.

If you want a gui, use yumex. Every time I tried a different gui for updates or 
installing packages, I came back to yumex. It however also uses NetworkManager 
for internet connection check (and does default to "no connection" if no 
NetworkManager is running), but the check can be disabled in the preferences.

Regards,
Lukas