On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:10 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > What exactly is the purpose of PackageKit? > Is it essential? No. > It is used by yum in some way? Other way round. It uses yum. It's an attempt at a "universal" interface that's independent of the underlying package management system. On Fedora, it's essentially a GUI for yum, but not the only one. > I'm asking because I get an error message > ------------------------------- > Fetch Job Error - Plasma Desktop Shell > > Unknown error. (Unable to fetch item from backend) > ------------------------------- > whenever I login or wake from hibernation, > and I saw somewhere a suggestion that this might be > related to PackageKit. It's telling you there's a problem with yum. Try running yum directly for more info (possibly some repo is down). poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
