Re: Help with Apper. Can't update system.
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