How To Install packagekit on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install packagekit on Ubuntu.

What is `packagekit`

packagekit is:

PackageKit allows performing 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.

The work is done by backends which make use of the package manager shipped by the corresponding distribution. PackageKit is not meant to replace advanced tools like Synaptic.

The main benefits are:

unified interface on several distributions
fine grained privileges by using PolicyKit
independency from a running desktop session during the processing

There are three methods to install packagekit on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install packagekit Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install packagekit using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install packagekit

Install packagekit Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install packagekit using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install packagekit

Install packagekit Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install packagekit using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install packagekit

How To Uninstall packagekit on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the packagekit package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove packagekit

Uninstall packagekit And Its Dependencies

To uninstall packagekit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove packagekit

Remove packagekit Configurations and Data

To remove packagekit configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge packagekit

Remove packagekit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove packagekit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge packagekit

Dependencies

packagekit have the following dependencies:

References

packagekit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install packagekit package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.