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Apper

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Description:

Apper is the KDE interface for PackageKit (aka KPackageKit)

Apper is able to manage packages, applications and updates in a cross-distribution way thanks to the PackageKit project. Providing Linux users a single application that they can learn and use in whatever distribution they are.

Hope you enjoy Apper, and please report bugs, make wishes so we can improve this application.

BUGS goes to bugs.kde.org

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IMPORTANT:
Apper itself can do nothing without PackageKit.
So have it installed before.
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INSTALLATION

Well now that you decide to install it. Be careful :D no warranty is given..

Requirements:
AFTER INSTALLING LOGOUT AND LOGIN SO KDED CAN LOAD THE Apper PLUGIN.
(also, make uninstall #from your old build dir)

PackageKit >= 0.8.5
KDELibs headers of Kde4
KDEWorskpace
KDE >= 4.3

Compiling:
- $ cd Apper # where you extracted it
- $ mkdir build && cd build
- $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/ # you must install in /usr otherwise KDE won't find it
- $ make
- $ su
- # make install

Enjoy :)

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dantti
8 years ago

no, the issue he's talking about should openSUSE specific our license handling is quite different from theirs...

Dana912
8 years ago

Hi
I used the last release of apper, and it still says
"License agreement Required"

The problem are not resolved as you promised:-(

shura
8 years ago

thank you!
Do you have any ppa for installing on Ubuntu without compilation?

dantti
8 years ago

Ximion has packaged it again :D
https://launchpad.net/~ximion/+archive/packagekit/+packages

pejakm
9 years ago

Hi Daniel. Can you please add option "check for updates every X hours", where we can define number of hours to check for updates?

pejakm
9 years ago

Also, can you please provide pot file somewhere, as the Messages script is not working here.

jfilipe
9 years ago

hi !

The previows kpackagekit its so buggy, anda i opted by comand line ! :-)
But since Fedora 16, it has apper, that's a very good, i used it !

One question:
Is possible or planned, an option to see update logs, like after yum update ??

Iraklis
9 years ago

I feel like a total noob, but I've wasted many hours without making any progress. So, I'm on debian wheezy, KDE 4.6.5, but when I try to "cmake" inside the build dir, I get this:

"CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1 (find_package):
Could not find module FindKDE4Internal.cmake or a configuration file for
package KDE4Internal.

Adjust CMAKE_MODULE_PATH to find FindKDE4Internal.cmake or set
KDE4Internal_DIR to the directory containing a CMake configuration file for
KDE4Internal. The file will have one of the following names:

KDE4InternalConfig.cmake
kde4internal-config.cmake

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:10 (kde4_add_ui_files):
Unknown CMake command "kde4_add_ui_files".

CMake Warning (dev) in CMakeLists.txt:
No cmake_minimum_required command is present. A line of code such as

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)

should be added at the top of the file. The version specified may be lower
if you wish to support older CMake versions for this project. For more
information run "cmake --help-policy CMP0000".
This warning is for project developers. Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!"

The thing is that I already have all dev packages installed and "FindKDE4Internal.cmake" is there. I, also, did:
"export CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=/usr/share/kde4/apps/cmake/modules"
to no avail. I don't know how I messed things up and any help would be appreciated.

dantti
9 years ago

Easy install kdelibs-dev package

Iraklis
9 years ago

Thanx for the quick reply. The problem is that I have kdelibs5-dev already installed... Actually, I have all the development packages installed. And this is why my mind is breaking in half to figure out what the problem is.

I should add at this point one strange thing going on. When I try to install dummy package kdelibs5 (note that kdelibs5-dev is already installed) I get the answer:

"Package kdelibs5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
libqt4-phonon

E: Package 'kdelibs5' has no installation candidate"

And the oddity continues when I try to install libqt4-phonon. In order to be installed it requires all KDE to be removed! This might be a non relative thing-bug, but thought it might help.

Question: It's a long shot, but, the other day I removed KDE 4.4.5 in order to install the 4.6 version of wheezy. Is there any chance that a package might be left behind, messing with the dependencies?

Iraklis
9 years ago

Thanx for the quick reply. The problem is that I have kdelibs5-dev already installed... Actually, I have all the development packages installed. And this is why my mind is breaking in half to figure out what the problem is.

I should add at this point one strange thing going on. When I try to install dummy package kdelibs5 (note that kdelibs5-dev is already installed) I get the answer:

"Package kdelibs5 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
However the following packages replace it:
libqt4-phonon

E: Package 'kdelibs5' has no installation candidate"

And the oddity continues when I try to install libqt4-phonon. In order to be installed it requires all KDE to be removed! This might be a non relative thing-bug, but thought it might help.

Question: It's a long shot, but, the other day I removed KDE 4.4.5 in order to install the 4.6 version of wheezy. Is there any chance that a package might be left behind, messing with the dependencies?

fogelfish
9 years ago

Has anyone built Apper for RHEL 6? PackageKit in the default repositories and default installation does not include packagekit-qt2. So when I invoke "cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/" the process chokes at "package 'packagekit-qt2>=0.6.17' not found". Any ideas on how I could proceed?

(RHEL 6 has no GUI software updater-installer in KDE. What's with that?)

belzebu87
9 years ago

on debian sid (kde 4.6.5 qt 4.7.3 packagekit-qt2 0.6.18) I was able to compile from source, but afrer a log out of course, I am not able to launch it. I get this error
apper(11800)/kdecore (services) KServiceFactory::findServiceByDesktopPath: "kcm_apper.desktop" not found
apper(11800) MainUi::MainUi: Could not load kcm_apper.desktop!

I get the same on a local arch install (kde 4.7.2)
What am I missing?

dantti
9 years ago

you are missing the install prefix:
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/
if you don't install in /usr KDE can't find the KCModule

belzebu87
9 years ago

thanks. Recompiled. Now I have the kcm module. Anyway, nothing works. I get is completly unusable window.
http://flic.kr/p/az36M6
if a click on a random button i get a notice of "unknown error" and in console i get:
Failed to initialize the desktop files database
enumFromString ( Role ) : converted "" to "UnknownRole" , enum id 0
enumFromString ( Group ) : converted "" to "UnknownGroup" , enum id 1
enumFromString ( Filter ) : converted "" to "UnknownFilter" , enum id 3
Error, cannot create transaction proxy
QDBusError("com.trolltech.QtDBus.Error.InvalidObjectPath", "Invalid object path: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files")
Error, cannot create transaction proxy
QDBusError("com.trolltech.QtDBus.Error.InvalidObjectPath", "Invalid object path: The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files")

what am i missing? Thanks in advice.

dantti
9 years ago

now it's easy you are missing the most important dependencie: PackageKit. if you are in Debian install the packaged version, if you are in any other distro check for compiled packages, otherwise changes are you will need to write a backend to talk to the package managent of the distro. But most modern distros have a backend for it.

belzebu87
9 years ago

i coudn't figure out why it was not a dependency...well installed and now IT IS OK.
Thank you, wonderful app! this app should not only be in debian mentor but in debian repos too!!!

dovidhalevi
9 years ago

Two little problems so far:

1. Is packagekit is not around, gives "unknown errors" for every click. The cmake should check for more than the libs. If this is not practical, the program should say "Please install packagekit" and gracefully exit.

2. Unlabeled notifications are spawned by the program's background processes. I suspected the worst.

dovidhalevi
9 years ago

Problem 3: A package with dependency problems (and these are very often around!) stops the whole thing dead. The "update cache" (why not use ones already available?) will not get updated.

dantti
9 years ago

Sorry don't get very much what you have said, but packagekit works on resolving deps exactly the same way as apt-get would.

dovidhalevi
9 years ago

OK.

Try apt-get -s upgrade, will work fine.

Try apt-get -s dist-upgrade will die with the same error as did apper's updating cache. So maybe, the update level needs be an option here.

Synaptic seems to avoid this problem in this manner.

dantti
9 years ago

I use it every day and it works fine, you have some conflict that can be avoided by not updating all packages, but I can't know what your problem is if you don't paste the whole problem.
Please take an screenshot of the error or something and additionally use pkmon and put it on a paste bin.

dovidhalevi
9 years ago

How can I get screenshots to you?

There are two: One is the dependency error--shows up immediately before beginning update cache and again after it fails. As opposed to what I originally suggested, this is not the cause of failure.

The second is failed read/gets that will also appear in apt. Maybe I have too much junk in my sources.list. However, apt and synaptic will still show available upgrades. Apper simply shows the "badge."

In other words, the errors are real, either mine or Debian's fault, but should not stop the program. Probably a quick fix of showing the list as it is, even if errors were reported.

dantti
9 years ago

http://imgur.com/ to paste images, also if you have IRC access you can contact us on #packagekit (freenode).
Maybe this conversation would be easier by mail.

agodumov
9 years ago

Hi there, i have been using KDE 4.6 for a while and i recently discovered Apper and am quite happy with it. You have done a great job and your work is really appreciated. I have one question though - does Apper support apt-listbugs? Since i use Debian Unstable, apt-listbugs can be a life saver from time to time.

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