PackageKit gets to be a real pest during installations and upgrades, by taking an inordinate amount of time to release the yum lock after each package finishes installing. So I was wondering how I could disable it before starting installations or upgrades? Thanx in advance.
There is another post that answers your question: see #10929 That post talks about how to disable PackageKit by editing the preferences.
There is another brute force way: Kill packagekit : Find PID by ps ax|grep packagekit and then kill <PID>
I don't think PackageKit is an indispensable part of a Fedora system. I've just uninstalled it as advised by #10929, then did an update, and everything worked out just fine. I believe that yumex and the command-line are all I'll need for package management. But if PackageKit is tying up your yum lock, you can halt it if you don't want to get rid of it altogether. [[ -f /var/run/yum.pid ]] && kill -15 $(cat /var/run/yum.pid).
Asked: 2013-10-25 00:29:21 -0600
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