Bug 480911

Summary: Unable to remove some packages using the PK GUI
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Michael Monreal <michael.monreal>
Component: PackageKitAssignee: Richard Hughes <richard>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Michael Monreal 2009-01-21 10:23:10 UTC
I'm unable to remove some packages using PK's GNOME interface. For example rhythmbox is clearly installed but the PK GUI shows it as being not installed, so I cannot uninstall it... Same for some other packages IIRC.

Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2009-01-21 12:02:40 UTC
Is there an update for rhythmbox available? If you turn off the "Newest" filter, can you see multiple versions?

Comment 2 Michael Monreal 2009-01-21 13:49:54 UTC
You are right again... The default only shows the latest version, regardless of if there is any older version already installed. This (and showing multiple versions of the same package) doesn't feel right to me...

IMHO gpk-application's primary aim should be installing new packages or remove ones that are no longer needed (it's listed as "Add/Remove software" in the menu after all). For updating packages, we have the gpk-update-icon/viewer. As it currently works, gpk-application also seems to be more update-oriented.

Comment 3 Steven M. Parrish 2009-09-08 01:45:32 UTC
Richard, any comments?  Is this an issue?

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Comment 4 Richard Hughes 2009-09-11 16:46:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Richard, any comments?  Is this an issue?

F10 PK is very old now, and I'm pretty sure it's using the old NEWEST filtering logic. I would be pretty wary of updating the version in F10 now.

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Comment 6 Steven M. Parrish 2009-11-18 21:10:34 UTC
Based on Richard's last comments and the fact that F10 is nearing EOL going to close this as WONTFIX.  IF you find this issue is still present in later releases please reopen and update the release information.