How To Install polkit on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit
on CentOS 7.
What is polkit
polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes. polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install polkit
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install polkit.
Install polkit on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install polkit
using yum
by running the following command:
Install polkit on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install polkit
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall polkit on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the polkit
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.