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kdebase-workspace package

Missing dependency on polkit-kde-1

Bug #653645 reported by Christophe Dumez
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kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)
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Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10

Bug Description

In Maverick, the kubuntu-desktop metapackage does not seem to depend on polkit-kde-1. As a result, I encountered several authentication issues (kpackagekit, qapt-batch) until I realized that this package was missing.

I was using ubuntu-desktop and decided to give kubuntu a try simply by typing:
sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop

It installed KDE but not polkit-kde-1 and thus the system was not entirely usable. I believe that a package dependency should be added.

Tags: kubuntu
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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

It's on the CD (grep http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/maverick/kubuntu-10.10-rc-desktop-amd64.manifest)

It gets installed by kdebase-workspace-bin which Recommends: polkit-kde-1 | policykit-1-gnome so maybe you already had policykit-1-gnome installed?

It should still work with policykit-1-gnome installed but maybe there are problems there, it won't be much tested.

tags: added: kubuntu
Changed in kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10
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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :

Yes, since I switched from gnome, I already had policykit-1-gnome installed when installing kubuntu-desktop.

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

What happens when you install a package using KPackageKit with only policykit-1-gnome installed?

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Christophe Dumez (hydr0g3n) wrote :

It refuses to install the packages saying that I failed to authenticate (but it did not ask me to authenticate).

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

So we probably want to remove the option for recommending policykit-1-gnome as a quick fix

Jonathan Riddell (jr)
affects: kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) → kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package kdebase-workspace - 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu8

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kdebase-workspace (4:4.5.1-0ubuntu8) maverick; urgency=low

  * remove recommend of policykit-1-gnome from kdebase-workspace-bin, it
    doesn't seem to work, LP: #653645
 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Oct 2010 13:14:12 +0100

Changed in kdebase-workspace (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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