http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2008/12/10/fedora-10-packagekit-problems en-us 40 the intriguing Mr Crichton-Seager's blog <p>I&#8217;d been using the <a href="http://labix.org/smart">Smart</a> Package Manager instead of the standard Fedora/RedHat offerings for the last couple of years, as it seemed to do a better job of sorting out <span class="caps">RPM</span> dependancy problems.</p> <p>However, on installation of <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/">Fedora 10</a>, I thought I&#8217;d give <a href="http://www.packagekit.org/">PackageKit</a> a try. It had been running nicely for two and a half weeks when an update caused any PackageKit use (even searching) to throw errors like this&#8230;</p> <code> failed to get a TID: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file... </code> <p>There is a <a href="http://fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=206797">long thread</a> on Fedora Forum about it, but after some hacking about and a general failure to get it sorted, I&#8217;ve decided to put Smart back on.</p> <p>This went without hitch and in the process, I created some Smart channel files for <a href="http://rpmfusion.org/"><span class="caps">RPM</span> Fusion</a>, the new third party software repository that merges Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna.</p> <p><a href="/files/rpmfusion-smart-channels.tar.gz">rpmfusion-smart-channels.tar.gz</a> (864 Bytes)</p> <p>Just put the <strong>.channel</strong> files in <em>/etc/smart/channels/</em> and Smart-GUI will pick them up.</p> Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:23:00 +0000 urn:uuid:6c154d5a-ab36-45b5-811a-baf7421ac487 Kat Crichton http://blog.klaws.org/articles/2008/12/10/fedora-10-packagekit-problems Linux http://blog.klaws.org/articles/trackback/77