Hi,
in 11.4 and 12.1 i faced at least two apper bugs [1], which in my opinion have shown that this software is still beta, see also [2]
Until a moment before i never saw the apper applet here on 12.2/RC2, and happily thought that it didn't got to 12.2.
But now i wanted to update with Yast, and it gave me the following error:
------------------------------------ PackageKit is blocking software management. This happens when the updater applet or another software management application is running.
Ask PackageKit to quit? ------------------------------------
I thought: What the heck, apper (= PackageKit(?)) still there?
Ok, the former bugs surely are fixed now, so i will give it a try.
Here is what happened:
- starting apper per menu doesn't work, resp have to start it a second time
- it then shows two icons: "Installed Software" and "Updates"
- clicking once doesn't do anything (isn't it an KDE app and shouldn't one-clicks work?
- double click on both icons gives error "an unknown error happened"
- wait, forget the last but one point. one-click works, but it takes so long without any progress indicator, and the error arises anyway
- After clicking away the error message, theres still a button left: "Check for updates ...". But pressing it leads to the same error again.
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I propose to throw out "apper" because it still seems beta (and that for a long time). But above all because with "yast" there is a working alternative.
db
[1]
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=658934 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=293959 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=737618
[2]
http://unsolicitedbutoffered.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/opensuse-121-apper-issue... http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/network-internet/...