How To Install polkit-kde-agent-1 on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit-kde-agent-1 on Kali Linux.

What is polkit-kde-agent-1

polkit-kde-agent-1 is:

PolicyKit is an application-level toolkit for defining and handling the policy that allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

It is a framework for centralizing the decision making process with respect to granting access to privileged operations (like calling the HAL Mount() method) for unprivileged (desktop) applications.

PolicyKit-Kde provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.

There are three methods to install polkit-kde-agent-1 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 polkit-kde-agent-1 Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install polkit-kde-agent-1 using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install polkit-kde-agent-1

Install polkit-kde-agent-1 Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install polkit-kde-agent-1 using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install polkit-kde-agent-1

Install polkit-kde-agent-1 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 polkit-kde-agent-1 using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install polkit-kde-agent-1

How To Uninstall polkit-kde-agent-1 on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the polkit-kde-agent-1 package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove polkit-kde-agent-1

Uninstall polkit-kde-agent-1 And Its Dependencies

To uninstall polkit-kde-agent-1 and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove polkit-kde-agent-1

Remove polkit-kde-agent-1 Configurations and Data

To remove polkit-kde-agent-1 configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge polkit-kde-agent-1

Remove polkit-kde-agent-1 configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge polkit-kde-agent-1

Dependencies

polkit-kde-agent-1 have the following dependencies:

• policykit-1
• libc6
• libkf5coreaddons5
• libkf5crash5
• libkf5dbusaddons5
• libkf5i18n5
• libkf5iconthemes5
• libkf5widgetsaddons5
• libkf5windowsystem5
• libpolkit-qt5-1-1
• libqt5core5a
• libqt5dbus5
• libqt5gui5
• libqt5widgets5
• libstdc++6

References

• polkit-kde-agent-1 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit-kde-agent-1 package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.