Information about the package, polkit, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The polkit package is designed for, PolicyKit Authorization Framework.
Package Name:
polkit
Summary:
PolicyKit Authorization Framework
Description:
PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.96
Release:
11.el6
Size:
631 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
LGPLv2+
Control the polkit package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install polkit
This command will install polkit on the server.
yum remove polkit
This command will un-install polkit on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove polkit, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove polkit
This command will un-install polkit 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update polkit
This command will update polkit to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove polkit, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update polkit
This command will update polkit 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info polkit
This command will show you core information about the polkit package.
yum deplist polkit
This command will show you the dependencies for polkit. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on polkit. 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.