How To Install plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8. plasma-pk-updates is Plasma applet for system updates using PackageKit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `plasma-pk-updates`

Plasma applet for system updates using PackageKit.

We can use yum or dnf to install plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plasma-pk-updates.

Install plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plasma-pk-updates using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plasma-pk-updates

Install plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plasma-pk-updates using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plasma-pk-updates

How To Uninstall plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the plasma-pk-updates package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove plasma-pk-updates

plasma-pk-updates Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/6a17721e1c81cc9a186e39fd6b7489bb01a9ff
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/plasma/PackageKit
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/plasma/PackageKit/libplasmapk_qmlplugins.so
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/plasma/PackageKit/qmldir
/usr/share/kservices5/plasma-applet-org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.desktop
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_applet_org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates.appdata.xml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/config
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/config/config.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/config/main.xml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/ui
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/ui/ConfigGeneral.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/ui/Full.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/ui/PackageDelegate.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/contents/ui/main.qml
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/metadata.desktop
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/metadata.desktop.cmake
/usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.pkupdates/metadata.json

References

plasma-pk-updates website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-pk-updates on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.