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PackageKit
Sign in to savePackageKit is a free and open-source suite of software applications designed to provide a consistent and high-level abstraction layer for a number of different package management systems. PackageKit was created by Richard Hughes in 2007, and first introduced into an operating system as a default application in May 2008 with the release of Fedora 9.
Key facts
- Software.name
- PackageKit
- Software.logo
- packagekit.png
- Software.screenshot
- Linux desktop system daemons and their graphical front-ends.svg
- Software.caption
- PackageKit is a system daemon, various graphical front-ends are available
- Software.author
- Richard Hughes
- Software.developer
- Richard Hughes, Matthias Klumpp, multiple backend maintainers
- Software.programming language
- C, C++, Python
- Software.operating system
- Linux
- Software.genre
- Package management system
- Software.license
- GNU General Public License
via Wikipedia infobox
Source code
Its primary design goal is to unify all the software graphical tools used in different distributions, and use some of the latest technology like PolicyKit. We welcome your contributions! Please read the CONTRIBUTING file first to get started when creating a pull-request. Each backend for PackageKit is maintained by a backend-maintainer, usually from the distribution the backend adds support for. You can find a list of who maintains what at backends/MAINTAINERS.md. If you file a bug that affects a specific backend, please tag it with the respective tag. Translation of this project is done via Weblate. Please check out hosted.weblate.org/projects/packagekit/ for the translation project for PackageKit.
Excerpt from the source-code README · 1,634 chars · not written by Vinony
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Software architecture
- Front-ends
- Back-ends
- See also
- References
- External links
PackageKit is a free and open-source suite of software applications designed to provide a consistent and high-level abstraction layer for a number of different package management systems. PackageKit was created by Richard Hughes in 2007, and first introduced into an operating system as a default application in May 2008 with the release of Fedora 9.
The suite is cross-platform, though it is primarily targeted at Linux distributions which follow the interoperability standards set out by the freedesktop.org group. It uses the software libraries provided by the D-Bus and Polkit projects to handle inter-process communication and privilege negotiation respectively.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “PackageKit” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.