How To Install packagekit-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install packagekit-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is packagekit-tools
packagekit-tools 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.
This package provides the PackageKit command-line tools. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: packagekit-tools Architecture: amd64 Version: 1.1.13-2ubuntu1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: libs Source: packagekit Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 138 Depends: packagekit (= 1.1.13-2ubuntu1), libc6 (>= 2.7), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.46), libpackagekit-glib2-18 (>= 1.1.9) Filename: pool/main/p/packagekit/packagekit-tools_1.1.13-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 32916 MD5sum: 2ad20177d9d44adc30ae1f5c7a8a37d5 SHA1: fa60d17c71a1541944f7ec9cb6381d4b0cf97e4b SHA256: 4f8f28fcb0bd89d78048da7d1a6dcdcd9b31ab252c484ac1a293d8fc1672ea55 Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/ Description-en: Provides PackageKit command-line tools 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.
This package provides the PackageKit command-line tools. Task: server, ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, cloud-image, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-core, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install packagekit-tools
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-tools 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-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install packagekit-tools
Install packagekit-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install packagekit-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install packagekit-tools
Install packagekit-tools 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-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install packagekit-tools
How To Uninstall packagekit-tools on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the packagekit-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove packagekit-tools
Uninstall packagekit-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall packagekit-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove packagekit-tools
Remove packagekit-tools Configurations and Data
To remove packagekit-tools
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge packagekit-tools
Remove packagekit-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove packagekit-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge packagekit-tools
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install packagekit-tools
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.