1) Policykit-kde is not installed, it seems: skr...@mania:~$ sudo aptitude show policykit-kde [sudo] password for skroon: Package: policykit-kde New: yes State: not installed Version: 0.0+svn920907-0ubuntu1 Priority: extra Section: libs Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 459k Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.1.96), kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.1.96), libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpolkit-dbus2 (>= 0.7), libpolkit-grant2 (>= 0.7), libpolkit2 (>= 0.8), libqt4-dbus (>= 4.4.3), libqt4-svg (>= 4.4.3), libqt4-xml (>= 4.4.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4.4.3), libqtgui4 (>= 4.4.3), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) Description: KDE dialogs for PolicyKit PolicyKit-Kde provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.
2) Erm, I don't what "backport PPAs" means, so I guess that's a no! -- [jaunty] kpackagekit doesn't prompt for user password https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/353278 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs