Aptkit allows to perform package management tasks in a background process controlled by DBus. It is the continuation of aptdaemon which is not actively maintained and only exists in Ubuntu.
Aptdaemon was greatly inspired by PackageKit, which doesn't support essential features of apt by policy.
This project is translated on Launchpad at https://translations.launchpad.net/linuxmint/latest/+pots/aptkit.
Please do not make pull requests to modify po/ files directly. These are overwritten when we import translations
from Launchpad.
- Document usage and examples
- Add support for XApp Window Progress (already present in SimpleAPTClient)
- Clean up code and copyrights with a reuse.toml and debian/copyright