Information about the package, polkit-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The polkit-devel package is designed for, Development files for PolicyKit.
Package Name:
polkit-devel
Summary:
Development files for PolicyKit
Description:
Development files for PolicyKit.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.96
Release:
11.el6
Size:
29 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the polkit-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install polkit-devel
This command will install polkit-devel on the server.
yum remove polkit-devel
This command will un-install polkit-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove polkit-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove polkit-devel
This command will un-install polkit-devel on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove polkit-devel when using the -y flag.
yum update polkit-devel
This command will update polkit-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove polkit-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update polkit-devel
This command will update polkit-devel to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove polkit-devel when using the -y flag.
yum info polkit-devel
This command will show you core information about the polkit-devel package.
yum deplist polkit-devel
This command will show you the dependencies for polkit-devel. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update polkit-devel
This command will check if there is an update waiting on polkit-devel. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.