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The holy grail of is getting packageKitD to work inside a container, pacakgeKit is an abstraction layer between user interfaces and a systems package manager. The issue is it relies on the systemD and Dbus which isn't on the container but on the host. You can actually view and install apps when running gnome-software from a guest, you are using the host package management system not the guests. One possible fix is make the reverse happen run GUI software centre on the host that communicates with an instance of packageKit and systemD in an init container. That should get around the fact init systems run cant access the hosts display. The other option is to somehow allow the GUI to run on the guest but use an instance of packageKit on the host and the hosts systemD and Dbus but have them communicate with the guests package management system not the hosts. Or you can do what I did and give up after spending way too long trying...