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<h1>Where do I download it?</h1>
<h2>Precompiled Packages</h2>
<p>
Your distribution may already have compiled packages that are much
easier to install. Refer to the <a href="pk-users.html">users</a> page for
more details or use the instructions provided below to get you going using
your native package manager.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
Conary: Yes, just run: <code>sudo conary update PackageKit gnome-packagekit</code>
</li>
<li>
Fedora: Yes, starting with 9, just run: <code>yum install PackageKit gnome-packagekit</code> (as root)
</li>
<li>
Debian: Yes, starting with 7 (Wheezy).
Just run <code>apt-get install packagekit gnome-packagekit</code> (as root). The KDE frontend Apper is also available.
</li>
<li>
Ubuntu: Yes, starting with Hardy Heron (8.04), that ships an obsolete version (0.1.6) of PackageKit by default.
Newer versions are used by more recent releases, but you can find the latest versions of PackageKit for all releases in this <a href="https://launchpad.net/~ximion/+archive/packagekit">Personal Package Archive</a>.
<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu#Adding_PPAs">Add</a>
the repository and <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware#Installing_a_Package">
install</a> the packages <code>packagekit</code> and <code>gnome-software-manager</code>.
(Install <code>apper</code> instead of <code>gnome-software-manager</code> for the KDE frontend)
</li>
<li>
openSUSE: Yes, starting with 11.0, add <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/">this</a>
repository file and run: <code>zypper install PackageKit gnome-packagekit</code> (as root)
</li>
<li>
Mandriva: Yes, starting with 2009, just run: <code>urpmi packagekit gnome-packagekit</code> (as root)
</li>
<li>
Others: Probably not, although you can compile from source. See below for more details.
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Released Versions</h2>
<p>
Released versions are found on
<a href="http://www.packagekit.org/releases/">http://www.packagekit.org/releases/</a>.
</p>
<h3>
Latest Supported Versions:
</h3>
<p>
These are versions which have new features for each release.
We are also willing to break ABI and API to fix bugs and will merge new or
modified translations as required or suggested.
Releases are normally on the first working Monday of each month.
</p>
<table>
<tr><td><b>Version</b></td><td> </td><td><b>Date</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>0.8.7</td><td></td><td>2013-01-16</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.8.6</td><td></td><td>2012-11-26</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.8.5</td><td></td><td>2012-10-26</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.8.4</td><td></td><td>2012-10-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.8.3</td><td></td><td>2012-08-06</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.8.2</td><td></td><td>2012-07-16</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.8.1</td><td></td><td>2012-06-25</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>
ABI Stable Versions:
</h3>
<p>
These are versions where we will not break ABI, API or localisations.
Releases are less frequent, usually every few months.
</p>
<table>
<tr><td><b>Version</b></td><td> </td><td><b>Date</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>0.7.5</td><td></td><td>2012-06-29</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.7.4</td><td></td><td>2012-04-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.7.3</td><td></td><td>2012-03-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.7.2</td><td></td><td>2012-01-17</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.7.1</td><td></td><td>2011-11-10</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.7.0</td><td></td><td>2011-09-05</td></tr>
</table>
<h3>
Obsolete Versions:
</h3>
<p>
These are versions that used to be the ABI stable releases, but are now
longer supported.
There will not be any more releases of these versions.
</p>
<table>
<tr><td><b>Version</b></td><td> </td><td><b>Date</b></td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.18</td><td></td><td>2011-09-05</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.17</td><td></td><td>2011-08-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.16</td><td></td><td>2011-07-04</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.15</td><td></td><td>2011-06-07</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.14</td><td></td><td>2011-05-04</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.13</td><td></td><td>2011-03-07</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.12</td><td></td><td>2011-02-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.11</td><td></td><td>2010-12-13</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.10</td><td></td><td>2010-11-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.9</td><td></td><td>2010-10-04</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.8</td><td></td><td>2010-09-06</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.7</td><td></td><td>2010-08-04</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.6</td><td></td><td>2010-07-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.5</td><td></td><td>2010-06-02</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.4</td><td></td><td>2010-05-06</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.3</td><td></td><td>2010-03-29</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.2</td><td></td><td>2010-03-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.1</td><td></td><td>2010-02-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.6.0</td><td></td><td>2010-01-04</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.7</td><td></td><td>2010-03-03</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.6</td><td></td><td>2010-01-05</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.5</td><td></td><td>2009-12-07</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.4</td><td></td><td>2009-11-02</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.3</td><td></td><td>2009-10-05</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.2</td><td></td><td>2009-09-07</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.1</td><td></td><td>2009-08-03</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.5.0</td><td></td><td>2009-07-06</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.9</td><td></td><td>2009-08-03</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.8</td><td></td><td>2009-06-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.7</td><td></td><td>2009-05-05</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.6</td><td></td><td>2009-03-30</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.5</td><td></td><td>2009-03-09</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.4</td><td></td><td>2009-02-23</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.3</td><td></td><td>2009-02-02</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.2</td><td></td><td>2009-01-19</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.1</td><td></td><td>2009-01-08</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.4.0</td><td></td><td>2008-12-09</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.16</td><td></td><td>2009-06-10</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.15</td><td></td><td>2009-03-30</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.14</td><td></td><td>2009-02-02</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.12</td><td></td><td>2008-12-08</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.11</td><td></td><td>2008-11-24</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.10</td><td></td><td>2008-11-10</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.9</td><td></td><td>2008-10-27</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.8</td><td></td><td>2008-10-20</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.7</td><td></td><td>2008-10-13</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.6</td><td></td><td>2008-10-06</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.5</td><td></td><td>2008-09-29</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.4</td><td></td><td>2008-09-22</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.3</td><td></td><td>2008-09-16</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.2</td><td></td><td>2008-09-08</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.1</td><td></td><td>2008-08-27</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.3.0</td><td></td><td>2008-08-18</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.2.5</td><td></td><td>2008-09-06</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.2.4</td><td></td><td>2008-07-30</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.2.3</td><td></td><td>2008-07-04</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.2.2</td><td></td><td>2008-06-05</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.2.1</td><td></td><td>2008-05-09</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.2.0</td><td></td><td>2008-05-06</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.11</td><td></td><td>2008-04-05</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.10</td><td></td><td>2008-03-28</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.9</td><td></td><td>2008-03-04</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.8</td><td></td><td>2008-02-21</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.7</td><td></td><td>2008-02-14</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.6</td><td></td><td>2008-01-18</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.5</td><td></td><td>2007-12-21</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.4</td><td></td><td>2007-11-26</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.3</td><td></td><td>2007-11-10</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.2</td><td></td><td>2007-11-01</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.1</td><td></td><td>2007-10-23</td></tr>
<tr><td>0.1.0</td><td></td><td>2007-10-16</td></tr>
</table>
<h2>Dependencies</h2>
<p>
The actual PackageKit daemon requires:
</p>
<ul>
<li><code>glib</code> 2.14.0</li>
<li><code>dbus</code> 1.1.3</li>
<li><code>dbus-glib</code> 0.74</li>
<li><code>libnm</code> 0.6.4 (optional)</li>
<li><code>polkit</code> 0.9</li>
</ul>
<p>
gnome-packagekit will need all the usual GNOME libs as well.
Just make sure you install PackageKit before gnome-packagekit!
</p>
<h2>Compiling the latest code</h2>
<p>
You can get the latest PackageKit daemon and GNOME frontend from the
<a href="http://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit">public git repositories</a>
on <a href="http://gitorious.org/">gitorious.org</a>:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://gitorious.org/packagekit/packagekit.git
git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-packagekit
</pre>
<p>
<a href="http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Apper?content=84745">Apper (was KPackageKit)</a>
is available from Git in the KDE playground:
</p>
<pre>
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/apper
</pre>
<p>
There are detailed build instructions for different distros available:
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BuildingPackageKitFromSource">Fedora</a></li>
</ul>
<p>
If you want to commit changes or a new backend, then please email the
mailing list and we can give you access to a developer server.
The developer server is always up to date, and the anonymous git is synced
about twice a day.
Having a two tier server lets developers review code for correctness and
security problems before it's used in the real world.
</p>
<h2>Adding backends to PackageKit</h2>
<p>
PackageKit itself is an abstract daemon, the only bits that are distro
specific are the backends.
</p>
<p>
To make PackageKit work on a new distribution, you have to write a
"backend" which is basically a shim layer from the distro tool to
packagekitd. A backend can have one or more threads and also spawn other processes.
</p>
<p>
See the developer information <a href="gtk-doc/index.html">here</a> for more
information.
</p>
<p>
Backends do not have to be complete; often they just contain basic
functionality to install and remove but do not provide dependency or file
lists for example. See the FAQ <a href="pk-faq.html">here</a> for backends status.
</p>
<p>
We need people to create backends, and then package (pardon the pun)
PackageKit and gnome-packagekit for more distributions.
I think it's important that installing and updating software should be
as easy as possible.
</p>
<p>Back to the <a href="index.html">main page</a></p>
<p class="footer">
Copyright <a href="mailto:richard@hughsie.com">Richard Hughes 2007-2010</a><br/>
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for <a href="http://www.w3.org/">standards</a>.
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