Disable Package Kit - PERMANENTLY

[Vector]

Does any one know how to disable package kit? It is not listed in the services list, so i don't see a way to disable it. I do not see it running in the services usually, and even if i do see it, and i kill it, there is still a yum process in the background. If you kill that, something starts it back up, which i believe is package kit, again.

[Lindy]

Does any one know how to disable package kit?

Not to sound like a smart@$$ but ==># yum remove packagekit should do it. Worked for me anyway.

[pwca]

Uninstalling it generally seems to always work for me as well. Of course, not installing it in the first place is even smarter.

[Hlingler]

[sudo] yum remove PackageKit

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[scottro]

The trouble is that a lot of different things seem to depend upon it so when I've done that, and then update something else, it gets reinstalled. (Maybe that's changed? I haven't even thought about it in awhile, as I'm usually just using the command line.)

[Vector]

Well, i always use the command line; but lately when i get that little notification "Hey! Do you want to down load some stuff!??", i just click yes/install/whatever. I wasn't really talking about 'uninstalling it', just 'disabling' it. Besides, i think that i'm screwed anyway. The whole point in stopping it, was because i can't shut down my computer because i'm 2 days in to transcoding a batch of videos to 264. So, if i shutdown and restart, i will loose progress on the two videos that are currently encoding, which is about 18 - 22 hours of work... But, it would seem that i really have no choice, because i killed the process for package kit and yum both, and now i cannot use yum because it crashes; so, here goes a restart, and SEVERAL hours of lost work...

Thanx anyway guys.

[Vector]

Evidently it doesn't like to be uninstalled very much. But, at least it seems that it is gone now.

Running Transaction
  Erasing        : gnome-packagekit                                         1/1 
ERROR:dbus.proxies:Introspect error on :1.38:/org/freedesktop/PackageKit: dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member "Introspect" error name "(unset)" destination ":1.38")

Removed:
  gnome-packagekit.x86_64 0:0.3.9-8.fc10                                        

Complete!

I never really cared much for it anyway, because id doesn't do like the others, and spit out a list (as text, that you can copy) of the packages that it's installing/removing.

[ryptyde]

I just go to System>Preferences>Personal>Sessions and un-tick PackageKit Update Applet and that stops PackageKit from automatically checking for updates. You can then use yum, yumex or whatever you normally use whenever you wish.

[Vector]

Ok, that is what i was looking for. Thanx guys.