kpackagekit does not show in systray

[Rex Dieter]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2011, Martin (KDE) wrote:

> Hallo
>
> the last years I used to use yum-updatesd to automatically update my
> system. But as some users switched of the computer during update I
> thought of switching to packagekit (the KDE variant). On my newly
> setup laptop this works as expected. I got a Icon in the systemtray if
> there are updates detected.
>
> On my other computer (the one previously updated with yum-updatesd)
> this does not work. I have set up the kpackagekit to check every hour
> but I got no icon in the systray. There are updates pending (yum in
> the command line told so). How do I get kpackagekit working?

The kapackagekit systray icon thingy is an autostart item on login, ie, 
did you relogin after installing it?

If you run kpk by hand, does it display any updates available?

-- Rex