How To Install policykit-1-doc on Debian 12

Learn how to install policykit-1-doc on Debian 12 with this tutorial. policykit-1-doc is documentation for polkit

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install policykit-1-doc on Debian 12.

What is policykit-1-doc

policykit-1-doc is:

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. It was previously named PolicyKit.

This package contains the API documentation of polkit.

There are three methods to install policykit-1-doc on Debian 12. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install policykit-1-doc Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install policykit-1-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install policykit-1-doc

Install policykit-1-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install policykit-1-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install policykit-1-doc

Install policykit-1-doc 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 policykit-1-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install policykit-1-doc

How To Uninstall policykit-1-doc on Debian 12

To uninstall only the policykit-1-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove policykit-1-doc

Uninstall policykit-1-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall policykit-1-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove policykit-1-doc

Remove policykit-1-doc Configurations and Data

To remove policykit-1-doc configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge policykit-1-doc

Remove policykit-1-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove policykit-1-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge policykit-1-doc

Dependencies

policykit-1-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install policykit-1-doc package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.