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

Linux                                             December 2009                              SESSIONINSTALLER(1)