Add software application fails to start

[Rahul Sundaram]

Wade Hampton wrote:
> On my wife's laptop with Fedora 10 (now stable using kernel option
> nomodeset), I started adding some applications using the Add Software
> menu option.  However, now when I try to access this option, nothing
> happens (even after a reboot).  What is the name of the underlying
> application and how can I call it manually?  Note that a silent
> failure is a pain (click, get an hourglass, then nothing....).

gpk-application if you are using GNOME and kpackagekit if you are using 
KDE. Perhaps you need to rebuild your rpmdb? A bug report would be useful.

Rahul