How To Install PackageKit on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit
on Fedora 36.
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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install PackageKit.
Install PackageKit on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install PackageKit
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install PackageKit
Install PackageKit on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 36
To uninstall only the PackageKit
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove PackageKit
PackageKit Package Contents on Fedora 36
/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/f616276336c2a805ab80631b14eaec060b9103
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/b5c754fdbd19c313fb6943b3d92afae8b41c9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/665c0d01a99e9aa985f81f68bace9e5775d5c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/486aeb118636e0187701ccd2e6e0296185c61e
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/500eed88c1a8506da17754af3a8f4e26dbb2e0
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/a56e4fe979edd0abcf64b4078c97e1df5498b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/a6e58ebb2c6c87c90e5d612cf1cc0405920ed3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/35177dadd20913244ab61c48a5bb64fcd2f634
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/f0/bce476fc097a54b80efce8f556187a20dd01de
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/52d248d0e52dea89d4eeb49124ab7c0e28ebfb
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/2991fd2ee9f52c7e1f1dd3065b0f76609c751f
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/2ad2145b723955ca720fc134254a25262f73ee
/usr/lib/.build-id/fd/e7a3cc1023fc05d341a3b8b1ab0236a024ae17
/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/PackageKit
/var/cache/app-info
/var/cache/app-info/icons
/var/cache/app-info/xmls
/var/lib/PackageKit
/var/lib/PackageKit/transactions.db
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install PackageKit
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).