How To Install gir1.2-polkit-1.0 on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is gir1.2-polkit-1.0
gir1.2-polkit-1.0 is:
PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
This package contains introspection data for PolicyKit.
It can be used by packages using the GIRepository format to generate dynamic bindings. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
Package: gir1.2-polkit-1.0 Architecture: amd64 Version: 0.105-26ubuntu1 Priority: optional Section: introspection Source: policykit-1 Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 46 Provides: gir1.2-polkitagent-1.0 (= 0.105-26ubuntu1) Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0, libpolkit-agent-1-0 (= 0.105-26ubuntu1), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (= 0.105-26ubuntu1) Filename: pool/main/p/policykit-1/gir1.2-polkit-1.0_0.105-26ubuntu1_amd64.deb Size: 7336 MD5sum: 87d5a8e10ab84192973cd7a65fe5453e SHA1: 2acbc1d640de6731e613297f7ca36289d7b1dee4 SHA256: 14bfa13ca5a1d59f158e46eb54e63cfb633fed94dd4db7fc5e342475241bf53a Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/polkit/ Description-en: GObject introspection data for PolicyKit PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
This package contains introspection data for PolicyKit.
It can be used by packages using the GIRepository format to generate dynamic bindings. Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntukylin-desktop, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop
There are three methods to install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
on Ubuntu 20.04. 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-polkit-1.0 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-polkit-1.0
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
Install gir1.2-polkit-1.0 Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
Install gir1.2-polkit-1.0 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
How To Uninstall gir1.2-polkit-1.0 on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the gir1.2-polkit-1.0
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gir1.2-polkit-1.0
Uninstall gir1.2-polkit-1.0 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gir1.2-polkit-1.0
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gir1.2-polkit-1.0
Remove gir1.2-polkit-1.0 Configurations and Data
To remove gir1.2-polkit-1.0
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gir1.2-polkit-1.0
Remove gir1.2-polkit-1.0 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gir1.2-polkit-1.0
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gir1.2-polkit-1.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gir1.2-polkit-1.0
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.