PackageKit Specification

PackageKit is a D-Bus abstraction layer that allows the session user to manage packages in a secure way using a cross-distro, cross-architecture API. PackageKit is built using a lightweight backend architecture. PackageKit is product and vendor neutral and is currently being developed by a small team of developers.

This part documents core features of PackageKit.

Table of Contents

PackageKit Introduction
Overall Description
Backends
Daemon Config Options
TransactionLogging
ShutdownTimeout
UseSyslog
DefaultBackend
Important Concepts
Package ID
Filters
Removing installed versions in search results
Filter examples
Error Enums
Group type
Cancellation
Transactions
Transaction example: Success
Transaction example: Failure
Transaction example: Trusted
Transaction example: Auto Untrusted
Transaction example: Package signature install
Transaction example: Download
Transaction example: Setting the locale
Transaction IDs
Status Values
Simultaneous Mode
Compiled Backends
Spawned Backends
Introduction
Methods
Common function outputs
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