How To Install packagekit-tools on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install packagekit-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04.
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.
There are three methods to install packagekit-tools
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.