How To Install packagekit-tools on Debian 10
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.
After updating apt database, We can install packagekit-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install packagekit-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install packagekit-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
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.
After updating apt database, We can install packagekit-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall packagekit-tools on Debian 10
To uninstall only the packagekit-tools
package we can use the following command:
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:
Remove packagekit-tools Configurations and Data
To remove packagekit-tools
configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:
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:
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
.