A quick bit of background: The way these releases work is that every quarter, Intel cuts a new release
of the upstream packages. We then compare what's in the quarterly release with what's in the current
release of each targeted distribution (or the next release if it's about to happen), and prepare a repository
containing the updated packages equired to bring the distribution up to speed with upstream.
So, it looks like the packagekit API changed in f20 (based on the error message you reported), which
means that the installer will have to updated (again) for f20, which should happen when the Q4 release
of the intel stack happens (a f19 release should be available shortly, it's going through QA right now).
As to why you need to use the installer: Strictly, you do not. You can build the packages from source,
or you can configure your package manager to point at the 01.org repositories directly, it's all good.
The installer is mainly there to make the process as smooth as possible for people whoc don't know
how or don't want to do those things.
I hope that answers your questions.
Hello,
with Fedora 20 coming around, how can I already install the drivers on the Beta-version?
Obviously, the installer says 'distribution not supported', but with that patched out from the source code the installer stops at 'freedesktop.packagekit.update-package not in PackageKit' (error message from memory; not actual text).
Did anyone succeed in installing the drivers on F20?
I have another question: Why do I have to install the drivers via the installer anyway? All the packages from the intellinux-repository are already installed (in a newer version) from the f20-repo. I asked that myself for F19 as well, but after the installation my laptop was finally able to go to sleep AND wake up every time. I did not follow up my question. But now without installing the drivers by using the installer, it's a gamble whether the laptop goes to sleep and wakes up afterwards.