How To Install gir1.2-mate-polkit on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-mate-polkit on Debian 9.
What is gir1.2-mate-polkit
gir1.2-mate-polkit is:
The mate-polkit package provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.
This package contains introspection data for mate-polkit.
It can be used by packages using the GIRepository format to generate dynamic bindings.
There are three methods to install gir1.2-mate-polkit on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gir1.2-mate-polkit Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-mate-polkit using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gir1.2-mate-polkit
Install gir1.2-mate-polkit Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-mate-polkit using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gir1.2-mate-polkit
Install gir1.2-mate-polkit Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-mate-polkit using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gir1.2-mate-polkit
How To Uninstall gir1.2-mate-polkit on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gir1.2-mate-polkit package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gir1.2-mate-polkit
Uninstall gir1.2-mate-polkit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gir1.2-mate-polkit and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gir1.2-mate-polkit
Remove gir1.2-mate-polkit Configurations and Data
To remove gir1.2-mate-polkit configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gir1.2-mate-polkit
Remove gir1.2-mate-polkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gir1.2-mate-polkit configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gir1.2-mate-polkit
Dependencies
gir1.2-mate-polkit have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-mate-polkit package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
