Session Installer provides an APT implementation of PackgeKit's session D-Bus API
Sessioninstaller allows applications to easily install additional software (e.g. extensions or GSreamer codecs) by calling a simple distribution neutral D-Bus interface.
The confirmation, error reporting and progress notification of the installation 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 adpoted 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).
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trunk series is the current focus of development.
All packages Packages in Distributions
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sessioninstaller source package in Xenial
Version 0.20+bzr150-0ubuntu4.1 uploaded -
sessioninstaller source package in Trusty
Version 0.20+bzr141-0ubuntu4 uploaded -
sessioninstaller source package in Precise
Version 0.20+bzr128-0ubuntu1.3 uploaded -
sessioninstaller source package in Oneiric based series for Ubuntu LEB
Version 0.20+bzr120-0ubuntu2 uploaded -
sessioninstaller source package in Bionic
Version 0.20+bzr150-0ubuntu4.1 uploaded
All bugs Latest bugs reported
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Bug #1938641: Without sessioninstaller (org.freedesktop.PackageKit dbus service provider) user is unable to install applications to handle unknown filetypes
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Bug #1694162: Wrong translation in po/de.po
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Bug #1661371: [zesty] doesn't offer a window to install missing gstreamer codecs
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Bug #1648613: Unable to lock directory /var/lib/apt/lists/
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Bug #1620035: Warning message about missing font installation not handled
Reported