PackageKit Reference Manual: PackageKit Reference Manual

Richard Hughes

<richard@hughsie.com>

for PackageKit 1.2.6

Copyright © 2008-2017 The PackageKit Authors

I. PackageKit Specification

Annotation Glossary

PackageKit Introduction

Overall Description
Backends

Important Concepts

Removing installed versions in search results
Filter examples

Error Enums

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 example: Repair

Transaction IDs

Status Values

Compiled Backends

Spawned Backends

Introduction

II. D-Bus API Reference

org.freedesktop.PackageKit — PackageKit interface
org.freedesktop.PackageKit.Transaction — Transaction interface

III. packagekit-glib2

Common functions — Common utility functions
Enumerations — Enumerations used in packagekit-glib2
PackageIDs — Functions for process PackageIDs
Offline Updates — Function to perform offline updates
PkBitfield — Bitfield object
PkCategory — Category object
PkClient — For creating new transactions
PkClientHelper — helper object to run a helper session process for the lifetime of a transaction
PkControl — For querying data about PackageKit
PkDesktop — Find desktop metadata about a package
PkDetails — Details object
PkDistroUpgrade — DistroUpgrade object
PkError — Error object
PkEulaRequired — EulaRequired object
PkFiles — Files object
PkItemProgress — ItemProgress object
PkMediaChangeRequired — MediaChangeRequired object
PkPackageSack — A sack of packages that can be manipulated
PkPackage — Package object
PkProgress — Transaction progress information
PkRepoDetail — RepoDetail object
PkRepoSignatureRequired — RepoSignatureRequired object
PkRequireRestart — RequireRestart object
PkResults — Transaction results
PkSource — Source object
PkTask — An abstract package task GObject, dealing with unsigned transactions, GPG keys and EULA requests.
PkTransactionList — A nice way to keep a list of the jobs being processed
PkTransactionPast — TransactionPast object
PkUpdateDetail — UpdateDetail object

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