How To Install packagekit-docs on Debian 10

Learn how to install packagekit-docs on Debian 10 with this tutorial. packagekit-docs is Documentation for PackageKit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install packagekit-docs on Debian 10.

What is packagekit-docs

packagekit-docs 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 documentation for PackageKit.

There are three methods to install packagekit-docs on Debian 10. 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-docs 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-docs using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install packagekit-docs

Install packagekit-docs Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install packagekit-docs using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install packagekit-docs

Install packagekit-docs 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install packagekit-docs using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install packagekit-docs

How To Uninstall packagekit-docs on Debian 10

To uninstall only the packagekit-docs package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove packagekit-docs

Uninstall packagekit-docs And Its Dependencies

To uninstall packagekit-docs and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove packagekit-docs

Remove packagekit-docs Configurations and Data

To remove packagekit-docs configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge packagekit-docs

Remove packagekit-docs configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove packagekit-docs configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge packagekit-docs

Dependencies

packagekit-docs have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install packagekit-docs package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.