How To Install mate-polkit-bin on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-polkit-bin on Kali Linux.

What is mate-polkit-bin

mate-polkit-bin 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 an executable wrapper script for the MATE policy kit authentication agent.

This package eases using mate-polkit as PolicyKit-1 authentication agent on non-MATE desktop environments that don’t auto-launch their own authentication agent (e.g., i3, awesome, ratpoison and alike).

There are three methods to install mate-polkit-bin on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install mate-polkit-bin Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install mate-polkit-bin using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install mate-polkit-bin

Install mate-polkit-bin Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install mate-polkit-bin using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install mate-polkit-bin

Install mate-polkit-bin Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install mate-polkit-bin using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install mate-polkit-bin

How To Uninstall mate-polkit-bin on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove mate-polkit-bin

Uninstall mate-polkit-bin And Its Dependencies

To uninstall mate-polkit-bin and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove mate-polkit-bin

Remove mate-polkit-bin Configurations and Data

To remove mate-polkit-bin configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge mate-polkit-bin

Remove mate-polkit-bin configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove mate-polkit-bin configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mate-polkit-bin

Dependencies

mate-polkit-bin have the following dependencies:

• mate-polkit

References

• mate-polkit-bin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-polkit-bin package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.