Fedora 9 Beta, PackageKit and system-config-printer

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Sun Mar 16 23:13:11 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 17:03 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:41 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > I was sort of hoping that /usr/bin/system-install-packages would
> > eventually be implemented using PackageKit.  That's what had been
> > hinted at previously.
> 
> (sorry for the delay, no Internet access all weekend)
> 
> Already done. You just have to use:
> 
> pk-install-file $THE_FILE_NEEDED
> or
> pk-install-package $THE_PACKAGE_NEEDED
> 
> We probably need to symlink system-install-packages and use the
> alternatives mechanism for backwards compat.

Is there something similar to install from a "dependency" name? eg.
$command libfoobar.so.0()(64bit) ?




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