Comment 6 for bug 262086

I installed packagekit to test things out.

For starters, the file /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/get-updates.py does not exist! The contents of /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt are:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 16K 2008-03-09 15:55 aptBackend.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 552 2008-03-09 15:55 get-description.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 521 2008-03-09 15:55 refresh-cache.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 589 2008-03-09 15:55 search-details.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 586 2008-03-09 15:55 search-file.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 587 2008-03-09 15:55 search-group.py*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 586 2008-03-09 15:55 search-name.py*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 18K 2008-08-30 09:42 aptBackend.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 370 2008-08-30 09:42 get-description.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 336 2008-08-30 09:42 refresh-cache.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 406 2008-08-30 09:42 search-details.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 400 2008-08-30 09:42 search-file.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 402 2008-08-30 09:42 search-group.pyc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 400 2008-08-30 09:42 search-name.pyc

This might have to do with the fact that hardy includes packagekit 0.1.6 (interpid will include 0.2.4), while the latest version is 0.3.1 (2008-08-27). I will install from source and tell you if the issue is resolved. If it is, we should change the bug description to "upgrade packagekit to 0.3.1", if not I will file the bug upstream...