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

Last updated: May 17,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "packagekit-tools" package

This tutorial shows how to install packagekit-tools on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                packagekit-tools
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "packagekit-tools" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall packagekit-tools 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-tools package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: packagekit-tools
Source: packagekit
Version: 1.2.6-5
Installed-Size: 107
Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Architecture: amd64
Depends: packagekit (= 1.2.6-5), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.54), libpackagekit-glib2-18 (>= 1.2.5)
Description: Provides PackageKit command-line tools
Description-md5: 8ba205caa823fb175b63d5c17f441a15
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/PackageKit/
Tag: role::shared-lib
Section: libs
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/p/packagekit/packagekit-tools_1.2.6-5_amd64.deb
Size: 30944
MD5sum: 50ad7584269c3431836fe98a91f0c682
SHA256: b0efa56d0d42e57d486881411c8e1982ae02055f3ab715613d547602d161d5ae