2017-04-02 19:46 GMT+02:00 Jeremy Bicha <jbi...@ubuntu.com>: > 2016-12-18 10:09 GMT+01:00 Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com>: >> According to >> <URL: https://github.com/kororaproject/kp-pharlap/tree/master/upstream >, >> the pkcon implementation in Ubuntu is able to look up packages >> supporting a given hardware device using the what-provides call. As
This is an Ubuntu-specific feature. The only stuff that is actually implemented and should be working with PackageKit is searches for codecs and to a very limited extend libraries and mimetypes. > By the way, 'pkcon what-provides' no longer works in Ubuntu 16.10 and newer. > > It's too bad because it broke what we had been using to install Ubuntu > language packs on Ubuntu GNOME. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1631750 This has never worked with PackageKit on Ubuntu/Debian. The aptdaemon does something different to make it work. The long-term solution for l10n stuff in Debian will be AppStream: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/sect-Metadata-Localization.html - I haven't yet had the time to work on it though. In any case, going through appstreamcli to find the stuff you want is easier today: appstreamcli what-provides %type% %stuff% (or just search & grep) Cheers, Matthias -- Debian Developer | Freedesktop-Developer I welcome VSRE emails. See http://vsre.info/
