gnome-packagekit, a front-end for PackageKit, running on Fedora |
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| Developer(s) | Richard Hughes |
| Stable release |
0.6.14 (May 4, 2011) [±] |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | C, C++, Python |
| Operating system | Linux |
| Type | Package management system |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | www.packagekit.org |
PackageKit is an open source and free suite of software applications designed to provide a consistent and high-level front end for a number of different package management systems. PackageKit was created by Richard Hughes.
The suite is ostensibly 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 PolicyKit projects to handle inter-process communication and computer privilege negotiation.
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PackageKit was created by Richard Hughes and first proposed in a series of blog posts in 2007[1][2], and is now developed by a small team of developers. Fedora 9 was the first operating system to use it as default front end for yum. It has undergone many updates in Fedora 10 and Fedora 11.
PackageKit itself is a system activated daemon called packagekitd, that abstracts out differences between the different systems. A library called libpackagekit also allows other programs to interact with PackageKit.[4]
Features include:
There are three front-ends for PackageKit:
A number of different package management systems (known as back-ends) support different abstract methods and signals that are used by the front-end tools.[5] Back-ends supported include:
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