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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install polkit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install polkit
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install polkit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install polkit
How To Uninstall polkit on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the polkit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove polkit
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
