[SOLVED] Package Kit - Stopping interaction with Yum

[aeran]

I'd like to stop package kit (PK) from competing with yum. I'm using F16.

I do manual updates and find PK is holding 'yum lock' more often than not. Also, it seems to run about every five minutes. On my machine, it hogs a lot of resources when active.

I tried to uninstall it but it has dependencies everywhere. I use KDE.

I've done a lot of research on this problem, and found many others have similar issues. One suggested solution was to remove the yum-packagekit plugin, which I've done, but has no effect.

Does anyone have a solution for this problem?


Later .....

I think I've found the answer here ....

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archiv.../t-272153.html

There's a PK gui that can be accessed at ...

$ /usr/bin/gpk-prefs

Here the auto updates can be switched off. Seems to be working.

[PabloTwo]

I generally just get rid of PackageKit as I only use yum at the command line. First, I check what PackageKit packages I've got installed:

BASH:~/-> rpm -qa | egrep "PackageKit|packagekit"
PackageKit-0.6.20-1.fc16.x86_64
PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.6.20-1.fc16.x86_64
gnome-packagekit-3.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64
PackageKit-yum-0.6.20-1.fc16.x86_64
PackageKit-device-rebind-0.6.20-1.fc16.x86_64
PackageKit-glib-0.6.20-1.fc16.x86_64

Trying to remove those packages using yum will mess up your system, as it will take out too much stuff. You can LOOK, but don't agree.

BASH:~/-> sudo yum erase PackageKit* gnome-packagekit
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Remove Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package PackageKit.x86_64 0:0.6.20-1.fc16 will be erased
 ----<snip>----
Dependencies Resolved

============================================================================================================================================
 Package                                  Arch                Version                       Repository                                 Size
============================================================================================================================================
Removing:
 PackageKit                               x86_64              0.6.20-1.fc16                 @updates                                  2.7 M
 PackageKit-device-rebind                 x86_64              0.6.20-1.fc16                 @updates                                   15 k
 PackageKit-glib                          x86_64              0.6.20-1.fc16                 @updates                                  429 k
 PackageKit-yum                           x86_64              0.6.20-1.fc16                 @updates                                  306 k
 PackageKit-yum-plugin                    x86_64              0.6.20-1.fc16                 @updates                                  2.5 k
 gnome-packagekit                         x86_64              3.2.1-1.fc16                  @koji-override-0/$releasever               11 M
Removing for dependencies:
 abrt-desktop                             x86_64              2.0.7-2.fc16                  @updates                                  0.0  
 bluez                                    x86_64              4.96-3.fc16                   @koji-override-0/$releasever              1.2 M
 control-center                           x86_64              1:3.2.2-1.fc16                @updates                                   13 M
 gdm                                      x86_64              1:3.2.1.1-8.fc16              @updates                                  6.2 M
 gnome-bluetooth                          x86_64              1:3.2.1-2.fc16                @koji-override-0/$releasever              560 k
 gnome-settings-daemon                    x86_64              3.2.2-1.fc16                  @updates                                  4.9 M
 libreport-plugin-bodhi                   x86_64              2.0.8-3.fc16                  @updates                                   15 k
 pulseaudio-gdm-hooks                     x86_64              0.9.23-1.fc16                 @koji-override-0/$releasever              385  
 pulseaudio-module-bluetooth              x86_64              0.9.23-1.fc16                 @koji-override-0/$releasever              176 k
 xfce4-xfswitch-plugin                    x86_64              0.0.1-3.fc15                  @koji-override-0/$releasever               54 k

Transaction Summary
============================================================================================================================================
Remove       16 Packages

Installed size: 40 M
Is this ok [y/N]: n
Exiting on user Command

But you can take them out with rpm using the "--nodeps" option, which won't remove any packages except what you specify:

BASH:~/-> sudo rpm --nodeps -e PackageKit PackageKit-device-rebind PackageKit-glib PackageKit-yum PackageKit-yum-plugin gnome-packagekit

All gone. Bye Bye. Good riddance.

---------- Post added at 07:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:46 PM ----------

OK.... you found the "OFF" switch.