How to Install and Uninstall packagekit Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: May 11,2024

You can also install and uninstall the packagekit on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "packagekit" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install packagekit on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "packagekit" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall packagekit on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the packagekit package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: packagekit
Version: 1.2.6-5
Installed-Size: 2952
Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libglib2.0-bin, polkitd, init-system-helpers (>= 1.52), libappstream4 (>= 0.15.0), libapt-pkg6.0 (>= 1.9.2), libc6 (>= 2.34), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.70.0), libgstreamer1.0-0 (>= 1.0.0), libpackagekit-glib2-18 (>= 1.2.4), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libstdc++6 (>= 11), libsystemd0 (>= 214)
Recommends: appstream, packagekit-tools, systemd
Breaks: plymouth (<< 0.9.5)
Description: Provides a package management service
Description-md5: 2a370c6f43c72ec3adb4412d3b3bdca0
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/
Tag: admin::package-management, implemented-in::c, implemented-in::python,
role::program
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/packagekit/packagekit_1.2.6-5_amd64.deb
Size: 609512
MD5sum: a76fba1e6342a3c07d348bc50fd93906
SHA256: b6c8edb72d87b4ec94a1eb4240051b2918ad08dd001b2e0abc71295b5400560a