Neal Becker wrote:
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Querying [ ] (0%) The daemon
crashed mid-transaction!
OK, in your case, packagekitd deamon is (simply) crashing :(
May be worth manually deleting everything under /var/cache/PackageKit, via
something like:
rm -rf /var/cache/PackageKit/*
and try again.
if crashes continue, hopefully abrt catches it and you can file a bug.
-- Rex