How To Install PackageKit on Fedora 34

PackageKit is Package management service

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit on Fedora 34.

What is `PackageKit`

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 or dnf to install PackageKit on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install PackageKit.

Install PackageKit on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install PackageKit

Install PackageKit on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install PackageKit

How To Uninstall PackageKit on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove PackageKit

PackageKit Package Contents on Fedora 34

/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/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/bc433deea88bd91c8c3553836b05ff6ea4d649
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/9c3627a0a976198d3234725ed0710090a6f577
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/dcf7a71f0538a190bc43841d516d857ac6b610
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/022aab6094e840bf6329cd19d8a7cf84ea218d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/fd06c2951ad2c8e6fce17f867d719fa5df8bd5
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/66bd1d2efc303ff0d9a0cc2acdc4d7d00b3b2a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/99887ae7656f399ea3ac9bc8193091b1ad6840
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a2/3203f92f3d279ca11774ca4e6544013b64ba4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9
/usr/lib/.build-id/a9/47a93575c99a79cb46a63e2b91466825c9bbac
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/2c9a1fe64911dcae4860f4c5d0ca131af631a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3
/usr/lib/.build-id/e3/b7fdfc36072b88eb59163a0263778ccc48a319
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/e17331991e7fcf1dd32244d968c3ea6414c51d
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/b1b3ac8b543e3b27f392048a6f118c44194e59
/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_dnf.so
/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/libexec/packagekit-direct
/usr/libexec/packagekitd
/usr/libexec/pk-offline-update
/usr/share/PackageKit
/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/test_spawn/search-name.sh
/usr/share/PackageKit/pk-upgrade-distro.sh
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pkcon
/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
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit/README
/usr/share/licenses/PackageKit
/usr/share/licenses/PackageKit/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/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/app-info
/var/cache/app-info/icons
/var/cache/app-info/xmls
/var/lib/PackageKit
/var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db
/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/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/ddf211f469652510fe49e263bb990de617c58c
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/fcad1332c17e8e85f2b8e3e2f44aedb8b7278e
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f
/usr/lib/.build-id/4f/bd7351c9f2480a19cecb4373ad44f753612af8
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/4ee7afb323a23cd9baeee5a73eb865bee31937
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/48aab744d251c3a7d578739eefebb419903ae2
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/0219b40c8f41a7437bce73e18ce977ad3343a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/38b3baf767c7e0e2f00b7bfbe66e6ca9f2f0d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/3dc27b5d6cc53850c2122d4c7e32cc42b35501
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/c2d42cc61cf4e366b5880fb0fd4dbd671e3264
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/22f88dcc8b946f73b82d0957779f76a9beebb1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/503b3bc67778b3b5fdda73701badf89494fde6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/33e1a3a5178da727d898cb84ce58374d3d8eea
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/e0f63d79dec1f406ef3bcaef578ceb86fc2066
/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_dnf.so
/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/libexec/packagekit-direct
/usr/libexec/packagekitd
/usr/libexec/pk-offline-update
/usr/share/PackageKit
/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/test_spawn/search-name.sh
/usr/share/PackageKit/pk-upgrade-distro.sh
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pkcon
/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
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/PackageKit/README
/usr/share/licenses/PackageKit
/usr/share/licenses/PackageKit/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/PackageKit.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/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/app-info
/var/cache/app-info/icons
/var/cache/app-info/xmls
/var/lib/PackageKit
/var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db

References

PackageKit website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.