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Bug#1100962: software-properties-qt fails with "ValueError: Namespace PackageKitGlib not available"

From Huey Chen <hueychen27@outlook.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#1100962: software-properties-qt fails with "ValueError: Namespace PackageKitGlib not available"
Date 2025-07-02 20:10 +0200
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Package: software-properties-qt
Version: 0.111-1
Followup-For: Bug #1100962
X-Debbugs-Cc: hueychen27@outlook.com

Dear Maintainer,

Attempting to start `software-properties-qt` fails with the following error:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-properties-qt", line 36, in <module>
    from softwareproperties.qt.SoftwarePropertiesQt import SoftwarePropertiesQt
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/qt/SoftwarePropertiesQt.py", line 33, in <module>
    gi.require_version('PackageKitGlib', '1.0')
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/__init__.py", line 129, in require_version
    raise ValueError('Namespace %s not available' % namespace)
ValueError: Namespace PackageKitGlib not available
```

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.15-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_USER
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages software-properties-qt depends on:
ii  debconf-kde-helper           1.1.0-1+b3
ii  python3                      3.13.5-1
ii  python3-pyqt6                6.9.1-1
ii  python3-software-properties  0.111-1
ii  software-properties-common   0.111-1

software-properties-qt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages software-properties-qt suggests:
ii  plasma-discover  6.3.5-1

-- no debconf information

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