KPackageKit

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A graphical tool to manage your packages

Features

• Manages installation and un-installation of packages
• Manages package updates
• Can be searched by package-name, description, or included file name
• Supports filtering on

• • Installed or available
  • Free or non-free
  • End-user or development
  • Graphical or text-only

• Can be viewed in package groups

Installing packages

If you know the name of the package, you can simply type that into the search bar - the default is to find by name.

Note

Searches are slow, as the package database has to be queried - both your local one and the database of each repo. You will find that working while it does that is slow.

Suppose, though, you need suggestions for suitable packages. This time you would choose to Find by Description. For instance, entering flaac into the search term then selecting Find by Description you would be presented with all packages that are related to the use of flaac files. Installed packages show a grey X (which will be used if you need to remove something) and available packages have a grey down-arrow.

So - you have a list of suitable files. Click on one of them and a panel opens giving you a description of the file. There are three other options to display - a list of files included in the package, a list of dependencies (which will be automatically handled if you choose to install) and a list of applications that depend upon the package you choose.

The dependencies of a package

Having found the application that is best for you, click on the down-arrow and you will see both the package icon and the action icon become active. Click OK, and your package will be installed.