Nautilus assumes packagekit is available if it was compiled with packagekit support

[Jerry Chong]

Binary package hint: packagekit

On Jaunty beta, double-clicking a file with an unknown association, e.g. Microsoft's CHM format pops up the following message.

"There is no application installed for CHM document files. Do you want to search for an application to open this file?"

Upon clicking yes however the following cryptic error is thrown:

"There was an internal error trying to search for applications:
The name org.freedesktop.PackageKit was not provided by any .service files"

While I understand that this means that the Packagekit service needs to be installed, the error message should be changed to something more user-friendly, or like how Ubuntu offers to install non-free codecs, automatically prompt to install Packagekit to continue this use case.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: packagekit None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/packagekit.list]
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: packagekit
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[James Westby (james-w)]

Hi,

Do you have the "packagekit" package installed?

Thanks,

James

[James Westby (james-w)]

I assume not, but I would like to be sure.

I think it should just handle this situation a bit better. Ideally it would
look for packagekit being available before showing the dialog.

Thanks,

James

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.