{"id":272671,"date":"2026-06-14T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/pkgcli-as-packagekits-modern-nicer-command-line-interface\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:25:11","slug":"pkgcli-as-packagekits-modern-nicer-command-line-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/pkgcli-as-packagekits-modern-nicer-command-line-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"pkgcli As PackageKit&#8217;s Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/PackageKit-pkgcli\">pkgcli As PackageKit&#8217;s Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/PackageKit-pkgcli\">https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/PackageKit-pkgcli<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-14 06:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.phoronix.com\">www.phoronix.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer.<\/p>\n<p>After nearly two decades of dealing with PackageKit&#8217;s pkcon CLI that was thrown together over the years, Klumpp developed pkgcli as part of his Sovereign Tech Agency fellowship. The pkgcli tool was designed from the ground-up to be human friendly both from the available command names to the output, a nice scripting experience via JSON lines for those passing the &#8220;&#8211;json&#8221; argument, sensible defaults, and all around a better experience for interacting with the PackageKit package management abstraction layer.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&#038;image=pkgcli_med\" alt=\"pkgcli on Ubuntu\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Those wanting to learn more about the pkgcli new command line interface for PackageKit can do so via this blog post. As this has been a long time in the making, for those already on an up-to-date Linux distribution may already find pkgcli available if shipping the latest PackageKit.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/PackageKit-pkgcli\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pkgcli As PackageKit&#8217;s Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/PackageKit-pkgcli Publish Date: 2026-06-14 06:09:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":272672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.phoronix.net\/image.php?id=2026&image=pkgcli","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71,79],"class_list":["post-272671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272674,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272671\/revisions\/272674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}