NAME
session-installer - allows applications to easily install and remove
software
SYNOPSIS
session-installer
DESCRIPTION
Session-installer allows applications to easily install additional
software (e.g. extensions or GSreamer codecs), unstall files and
perform simple package status queries by calling a distribution neutral
D-Bus interface.
The whole process of confirmation, error reporting and progress
notification is handled by sessioninstaller. Currently it comes only
with a GTK based user interface.
The D-Bus interface is developed under the PackageKit umbrella and is
available on the session bus. The reference implementation can be found
in gnome-packagekit. It was also adpoted by KPackageKit.
In contrast to gnome-packagekit and KPackageKit it doesn’t use the
PackageKit daemon for querying and installation, but instead makes use
of APT and aptdaemon directly (alternatively synaptic can be used).
Normally it is not required to start this programme manually since it
makes use of D-Bus activation and will be started on request
automatically.
ENVIRONMENT
SESSIONINSTALLER_BACKEND
Set the package manager which should be used for installation.
Possible values are aptdaemon, synaptic and dummy.
HOMEPAGE
https://launchpad.net/sessioninstaller
BUGS
You can report bugs at the Launchpad site of aptdaemon:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/sessioninstaller/+filebug
AUTHOR
Sebastian Heinlein <devel at glatzor dot de>
SEE ALSO
aptd(1) http://www.packagekit.org/pk-faq.html#session-methods