Is "software update" in a working state yet?

[Jeff Molofee]

  packagekit... moreso gnome-packagekit

On 7/22/2010 1:23 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Jeff Molofee<nehe at telus.net>  writes:
>
>> I've noticed software update pop up on the screen quite a bit lately.
>> Initially it popped up and did nothing.  Now in 8.1-RC2 it pops up and
>> shows me that I actually have updates.  When I click update, it seems
>> like it's actually attempting to upgrade the listed packages, but the
>> entire process always ends with "command 'update-packages' is not
>> known".
>>
>> Do I have something misconfigured or is it still incomplete?
> Pardon my naivete, but:
>
> What is "software update"?
> It sounds like a GUI-ish thing;
> Is it a part of some desktop manager?
> Do you know what it uses as a backend?