I can verify this behavior. Sometimes kpackagekit simply fails to complete the install of a metapackage; other times it silently crashes. Apt-get has no problems installing the requested packages.
Here's the output from an attempt to install kubuntu-restricted extras. The steps were as follows: 1) Open kpackagekit. 2) Search for "kubuntu-restricted-extras". 3) Click the package to see the description of the package. 4) Click the Plus to mark the package. 5) Click Apply -- note that installation silently failed here. 6) Repeat steps 4 and 5 -- this time kpackagekit silently crashed. =============== sc...@riogrande:~$ kpackagekit KPackageKit(7599) kpackagekit::KPackageKit::newInstance: SHOW UI! KPackageKit(7599) kpackagekit::KPackageKit::showUi: GO UI! KPackageKit(7599) KpkAddRm::setCurrentAction: enumFromString ( Group ) : converted "unknown" to "Unknown" , enum value -1 KPackageKit(7599) KpkTransactionBar::setBehaviors: Hide! 1 sc...@riogrande:~$ KPackageKit(7599) KpkAddRm::on_actionFindName_triggered: KPackageKit(7599) KpkAddRm::setCurrentAction: New transaction with tid "/23_dabdebdc_data" enumFromString ( State ) : converted "collection-available" to "CollectionAvailable" , enum value -1 removing transaction from pool : "/23_dabdebdc_data" New transaction with tid "/24_eeccdabb_data" enumFromString ( License ) : converted "unknown" to "Unknown" , enum value -1 removing transaction from pool : "/24_eeccdabb_data" KPackageKit(7599) KpkReviewChanges::checkTask: task else New transaction with tid "/25_abdcacec_data" enumFromString ( State ) : converted "collection-available" to "CollectionAvailable" , enum value -1 removing transaction from pool : "/25_abdcacec_data" KPackageKit(7599) KpkReviewChanges::checkTask: task else New transaction with tid "/26_debdbead_data" KPackageKit(7599) KpkAddRm::~KpkAddRm: Saving filters settings =============== Current kpackagekit version: 0.4-0ubuntu8 Kubuntu version: 9.04 -- Installation of some metapackages fails silently https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/367444 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
