How To Install polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8. polkit-qt5-1 is PolicyKit Qt5 bindings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8.

What is polkit-qt5-1

Polkit-qt is a library that lets developers use the PolicyKit API through a nice Qt-styled API.

We can use yum or dnf to install polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install polkit-qt5-1.

Install polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install polkit-qt5-1 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install polkit-qt5-1

Install polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install polkit-qt5-1 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install polkit-qt5-1

How To Uninstall polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the polkit-qt5-1 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove polkit-qt5-1

polkit-qt5-1 Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/d7af88dcb96f08942980335a3e8126f0a8fa55
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/b605743e5177671c7953c0853d54344ab83ef3
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/41e37f23b40be9bceb889f45d34c0be6efbade
/usr/lib64/libpolkit-qt5-agent-1.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpolkit-qt5-agent-1.so.1.112.0
/usr/lib64/libpolkit-qt5-core-1.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpolkit-qt5-core-1.so.1.112.0
/usr/lib64/libpolkit-qt5-gui-1.so.1
/usr/lib64/libpolkit-qt5-gui-1.so.1.112.0
/usr/share/doc/polkit-qt5-1
/usr/share/doc/polkit-qt5-1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/polkit-qt5-1/README
/usr/share/licenses/polkit-qt5-1
/usr/share/licenses/polkit-qt5-1/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit-qt5-1 on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.