Does KDE do offline software updates?
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 24 01:45:28 UTC 2015
Chris Murphy wrote:
> OK I'm going to display some total KDE ignorance here, hopefully a KDE
> user can answer this.
>
> On GNOME, gnome-software + packagekit + systemd work together to make
> the user aware of software updates. This includes any installed
> applications, as well as OS + kernel updates. The user clicks on
> Restart & Install in gnome-software, or chooses that option in the
> reboot/poweroff panel. The system reboots, a special systemd offline
> updates target is triggered, and packagekit installs all the
> previously downloaded rpms with a progress indicator, then reboots
> (again).
>
> So I'm wondering what the equivalent is on KDE, with about that much
> detail.
KDE's packagekit client, apper, does not support offline updates, as far as
I'm aware.
-- Rex
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