kpackagekit fails with authentication error in live sessions ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 15 03:41:56 UTC 2009


I know that kpackagekit is undergoing some big changes.  I mention the
following in case people aren't aware of it. 

I was unable to install new packages with kpackagekit during both
F11-live sessions and f12 rawhide live sessions due to authentication
problems.

I am in the process of buying a netbook computer for a project.  Before
I purchase, I want to make sure that it will run various pieces of
software and do various things.  (transcode video, run YouTube videos,
etc.) 

A live session provides a very convenient way of testing this sort of
thing because one needn't install Fedora onto a hard drive, one can
easily test multiple machines, etc. 

However, the live iso doesn't provide all of the packages necessary to
do the things I need.  I thus attempted to use kpackagekit as a normal
user to install several packages during the live sessions.

The isos used for these sessions were:

kde-i386-20091012.16.iso
kde-i386-20091008.15.iso and
Fedora-11-i686-Live-KDE.iso

However, kpackagekit failed to install any packages at all.  With each
attempt kpackagekit came to the point where it required authentication
to actually install the packages, then displayed an authentication
request window and locked up, not allowing the user to authenticate the
request.  The only way to exit the process was to cancel it and try
(unsuccessfully) again.

Knowing that one must be superuser in order to install packages using
yum, I attempted to run kpackagekit as su from the command line using
$kdesu kpackagekit and #kpackagekit.  Kpackagekit failed to run at all
from these attempts. 

Thanks for listening. 




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