How To Install polkit on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit in Fedora 36. polkit is An authorization framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit on Fedora 36.

What is polkit

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

We can use yum or dnf to install polkit on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install polkit.

Install polkit on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install polkit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install polkit

Install polkit on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install polkit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install polkit

How To Uninstall polkit on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the polkit package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove polkit

polkit Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/pam.d/polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules
/usr/bin/pkaction
/usr/bin/pkcheck
/usr/bin/pkexec
/usr/bin/pkttyagent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/00952533b389bc4763e7a82eef0b8d0b52066a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/78b6458e492723c58a5752aafbd01e48d11df9
/usr/lib/.build-id/51
/usr/lib/.build-id/51/4d3e39627867c500923b21b0ae57542ecf2458
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/ba2a1193e103d1a62346610638bb8e6ebf2d34
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/1a47602e99d8da1c12ec4aef8a5d25f7ee054d
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/aaa8ca93e5aa481c33bb640fb5bc7d47cd8c1d
/usr/lib/polkit-1
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf
/usr/share/doc/polkit
/usr/share/doc/polkit/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/polkit/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/polkit/README
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pkaction.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkcheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkttyagent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/polkit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/polkitd.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).