I don't know - all previous upgrades I've just done what aptitude/the updater recommended.
OK, I looked at: skr...@mania:~$ sudo aptitude show kpackagekit Package: kpackagekit New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 0.4-0ubuntu8.1 Priority: extra Section: libs Maintainer: Kubuntu Developers <kubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 774k Depends: kdebase-runtime (>= 4:4.2.1), kdelibs5 (>= 4:4.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.1.3), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libpackagekit-qt11, libqt4-dbus (>= 4.5.0~+rc1), libqt4-network (>= 4.5.0~+rc1), libqt4-svg (>= 4.5.0~+rc1), libqt4-xml (>= 4.5.0~+rc1), libqtcore4 (>= 4.5.0~+rc1), libqtgui4 (>= 4.5.0~+rc1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), policykit-kde | policykit-gnome, software-properties-kde, packagekit (>= 0.3.14-0ubuntu3) Description: KDE package management tool using PackageKit PackageKit allows to perform simple software management tasks over a DBus interface e.g. refreshing the cache, updating, installing and removing software packages or searching for multimedia codecs and file handlers. This package provides a package manager and a update notifier. Homepage: http://www.packagekit.org This indicates a dependency on policykit-kde OR policykit-gnome. And apparently I do have policykit-gnome installed (it's marked for Automatic installation): skr...@mania:~$ sudo aptitude show policykit-gnome Package: policykit-gnome State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 0.9-1ubuntu3 Priority: optional Section: gnome Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel-disc...@lists.ubuntu.com> Uncompressed Size: 643k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.0.2), libdbus-glib-1-2 (>= 0.71), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.13.5), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 1:2.17.90), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.15.0), libpolkit-dbus2 (>= 0.7), libpolkit-gnome0 (>= 0.7), libpolkit-grant2 (>= 0.7), libpolkit2 (>= 0.8), libsexy2 (>= 0.1.8), policykit, dbus-x11 Description: GNOME dialogs for PolicyKit PolicyKit-gnome provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges. Homepage: http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit-gnome/ Tags: implemented-in::c, interface::x11, role::program, security::authentication, suite::gnome, uitoolkit::gtk -- [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