How To Install polkit-kde-agent-1 on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit-kde-agent-1 on Debian 9.
What is polkit-kde-agent-1
polkit-kde-agent-1 is:
PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
It is a framework for centralizing the decision making process with respect to granting access to privileged operations (like calling the HAL Mount() method) for unprivileged (desktop) applications.
PolicyKit-Kde provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.
There are three methods to install polkit-kde-agent-1 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 polkit-kde-agent-1 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install polkit-kde-agent-1 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install polkit-kde-agent-1
Install polkit-kde-agent-1 Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install polkit-kde-agent-1 using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install polkit-kde-agent-1
Install polkit-kde-agent-1 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 polkit-kde-agent-1 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install polkit-kde-agent-1
How To Uninstall polkit-kde-agent-1 on Debian 9
To uninstall only the polkit-kde-agent-1 package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove polkit-kde-agent-1
Uninstall polkit-kde-agent-1 And Its Dependencies
To uninstall polkit-kde-agent-1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove polkit-kde-agent-1
Remove polkit-kde-agent-1 Configurations and Data
To remove polkit-kde-agent-1 configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge polkit-kde-agent-1
Remove polkit-kde-agent-1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove polkit-kde-agent-1 configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polkit-kde-agent-1
Dependencies
polkit-kde-agent-1 have the following dependencies:
- policykit-1
- libc6
- libkf5coreaddons5
- libkf5crash5
- libkf5dbusaddons5
- libkf5i18n5
- libkf5iconthemes5
- libkf5widgetsaddons5
- libkf5windowsystem5
- libpolkit-qt5-1-1
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit-kde-agent-1 package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
