SESSIONINSTALLER(1)

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), uninstall 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 adopted 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