How To Install packagekit-tools on Debian 10

Learn how to install packagekit-tools on Debian 10 with this tutorial. packagekit-tools is Provides PackageKit command-line tools

Introduction

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

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 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-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 Debian. 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 Debian 10

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 Debian 10, 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 Debian 10 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

Dependencies

packagekit-tools have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

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