Is "software update" in a working state yet?

[Lowell Gilbert]

Don't top-post, please.

Jeff Molofee <nehe at telus.net> writes:

>  packagekit... moreso gnome-packagekit

I see.  I don't know much about it, but I see that there's a "pkmon"
tool for debugging it.  

> 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?