2007-10-17 09:46:06 -07:00
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<title>PackageKit</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/>
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<table align="center" class="title">
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<tr>
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<td><img src="img/packagekit.png"/></td>
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2007-10-17 10:06:35 -07:00
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<td width="95%" valign="middle"><p class="title">PackageKit</p></td>
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2007-10-17 09:46:06 -07:00
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<td><img src="img/packagekit.png"/></td>
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</tr>
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</table>
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<p>Back to the <a href="index.html">main page</a></p>
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<h1>Where do I download it?</h1>
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<p>
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Your distribution may already have compiled packages that are much
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easier to install.
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Conary:
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Yes, just do sudo conary update-all
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Fedora 8:
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Yes, just install this repo and do yum install PackageKit
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gnome-packagekit
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Others:
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Probably not, although you can compile from source. See the download <a
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href="">page</a> for more details.
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</p>
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<p>
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PackageKit itself is an abstract daemon, the only bits that are distro
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specific are the backends.
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To make PackageKit work on your unknown distribution you have to write a
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"backend" which is basically a shim layer from the distro tool to
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packagekitd.
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A backend can have one or more threads and also spawn other processes.
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See the developer information <a href="moo">here</a> for loads more
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information.
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<p>
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Backends do not have to be complete; often they just contain basic
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functionality to install and remove but not provide dependency or file
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lists for example.
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For instance:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>yum (95% complete)</li>
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<li>conary (70% complete)</li>
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<li>apt (40% complete)</li>
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<li>box (10% complete)</li>
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<li>pacman/alpm (10% complete)</li>
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</ul>
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<p>
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We need people to create a backend, and then package (pardon the pun)
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PackageKit and gnome-packagekit for distributions.
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I think it's important that installing and updating software should be
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as easy as possible.
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</p>
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Use Wiki:/Downloads
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<p>Back to the <a href="index.html">main page</a></p>
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