How To Install polkit-kde-agent-1 on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

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

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 Ubuntu. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu

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 Ubuntu, 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 Ubuntu 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:

References

polkit-kde-agent-1 website

Summary

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