How To Install mate-polkit on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-polkit
on Kali Linux.
What is mate-polkit
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 the MATE policy kit authentication agent.
There are three methods to install mate-polkit
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 Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mate-polkit
using apt-get
by running the following command:
Install mate-polkit Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
After updating apt database, We can install mate-polkit
using apt
by running the following command:
Install mate-polkit 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.
After updating apt database, We can install mate-polkit
using aptitude
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mate-polkit on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the mate-polkit
package we can use the following command:
Uninstall mate-polkit And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mate-polkit
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
Remove mate-polkit Configurations and Data
To remove mate-polkit
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
Remove mate-polkit configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mate-polkit
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
Dependencies
mate-polkit have the following dependencies:
- accountsservice
- mate-polkit-common
- policykit-1
- libc6
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgtk-3-0
- libpolkit-agent-1-0
- libpolkit-gobject-1-0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mate-polkit
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.