How To Install PackageKit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. PackageKit.x86_64 is Package management service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `PackageKit.x86_64`

PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API.

We can use yum to install PackageKit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install PackageKit.x86_64.

Install PackageKit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install PackageKit.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install PackageKit.x86_64

How To Uninstall PackageKit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the PackageKit.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove PackageKit.x86_64

PackageKit.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/PackageKit
/etc/PackageKit/PackageKit.conf
/etc/PackageKit/Vendor.conf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.conf
/usr/bin/pkcon
/usr/bin/pkmon
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/__init__.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/backend.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/enums.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/enums.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/enums.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/filter.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/filter.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/filter.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/misc.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/misc.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/misc.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/package.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/package.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/package.pyo
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/progress.py
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/progress.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/packagekit/progress.pyo
/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit-offline-update.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/packagekit.service
/usr/lib/systemd/system/system-update.target.wants
/usr/lib/systemd/system/system-update.target.wants/packagekit-offline-update.service
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_dummy.so
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_test_fail.so
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_test_nop.so
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_test_spawn.so
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_test_succeed.so
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_test_thread.so
/usr/lib64/packagekit-backend/libpk_backend_yum.so
/usr/libexec/packagekit-direct
/usr/libexec/packagekitd
/usr/libexec/pk-offline-update
/usr/share/PackageKit
/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers
/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/test_spawn
/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/test_spawn/search-name.sh
/usr/share/PackageKit/icons
/usr/share/PackageKit/pk-upgrade-distro.sh
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PackageKit.service
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit-1.1.5
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit-1.1.5/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit-1.1.5/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit-1.1.5/README
/usr/share/licenses/PackageKit-1.1.5
/usr/share/licenses/PackageKit-1.1.5/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pkcon.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkmon.1.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.packagekit.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/org.freedesktop.packagekit.rules
/var/cache/PackageKit
/var/cache/PackageKit/downloads
/var/cache/PackageKit/groups.sqlite
/var/cache/PackageKit/metadata
/var/lib/PackageKit
/var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db

References

PackageKit.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.