[Freedombox-discuss] packagekit error

Bharath Chava bharath.ch at gmail.com
Mon Aug 31 15:26:40 UTC 2015


Thanks Sunil, your workaround is working.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Sunil Mohan <sunil at medhas.org> wrote:

> On 08/31/2015 08:23 PM, Bharath Chava wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > While installing deluge from Plinth page, i am getting the following
> error:
> >
> > "Error installing packages: Cannot refresh cache whilst offline "
> >
> > On searching the Internet, i did the following
> >
> > Inserted "UseNetworkManager=false" in /etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf"
> >
> > then restarted the PackageKit service by
> >
> > sudo systemctl restart packagekit.service
> > sudo pkcon repair
> >
> > But even then the error persisted.
> >
> > Please let me know how to go around this problem.
>
> We faced this before, having at least one network connection managed by
> NetworkManager is a workaround.  To do this, configure a network
> connection in Plinth, comment out the connection in
> /etc/network/interfaces and reboot.  It should work.
>
> Currently, all network connections in a FreedomBox images are configured
> using NetworkManager, so this hasn't been a big headache.  It would be
> nice to have a solution.  It sounds like your configuration change to
> PackageKit.conf should have worked.
>
> --
> Sunil
>
>
>
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