How To Install polkit on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit on Rocky Linux 8. polkit is An authorization framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit on Rocky Linux 8.

What is polkit

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install polkit.

Install polkit on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install polkit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install polkit

Install polkit on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install polkit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install polkit

How To Uninstall polkit on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the polkit package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove polkit

polkit Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf
/etc/pam.d/polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules
/usr/bin/pkaction
/usr/bin/pkcheck
/usr/bin/pkexec
/usr/bin/pkttyagent
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/3b0b30bac29b5aa7a9bef1d73c35bfa6750f78
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/934eef2cf6aff62d60e2435193b5ad99377d98
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/17bf19a26847cb1181ec226cd7d448a7f54dae
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/e7e37f48cd0161737b5630531812d5e1bd4d2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/1e70c968ba043d0d3d80a4f383f4f660cdcf34
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c5/039eba870287c57fc620f18c8d83f7891bb340
/usr/lib/polkit-1
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
/usr/share/doc/polkit
/usr/share/doc/polkit/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/polkit/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/polkit/README
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pkaction.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkcheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkttyagent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/polkit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/polkitd.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.