Gpk Update Icon Disabled

The packagekitd daemon runs outside the user session and communicates with the various graphical front ends. The packagekitd daemon communicates via the DBus system message bus with another back end, which utilizes Yum's Python API to perform queries and make changes to the sytem. On Linux systems other than Fedora, packagekitd can communicate with other back ends that are able to utilize the native package manager for that system. This modular architecture provides the abstraction necessary for the graphical interfaces to work with many different package managers to perform essentially the same types of package management tasks.

Gpk Update Icon Disabled Ipad

Learning how to use the PackageKit front ends means that you can use the same familiar graphical interface across many different Linux distributions, even when they utilize a native package manager other than Yum. System daemons are typically long-running processes that provide services to the user or to other programs, and which are started, often at boot time, by special initialization scripts (often shortened to init scripts). Daemons respond to the service command and can be turned on or off permanently by using the chkconfig on or chkconfig offcommands. They can typically be recognized by a “ d” appended to their name, such as the packagekitd daemon.

Icons

Refer to for information about system services.