Complete Guide: Installing polkit on Arch Linux 2025

1. Install "polkit" package

Please follow the instructions below to install polkit on Arch Linux


    
        
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                sudo pacman -Sy
            
                    
    
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                sudo pacman -S
            
                        
                polkit
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "polkit" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to uninstall polkit on Arch Linux:


    
        
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                sudo pacman -Rcns
            
                        
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3. Information about the polkit package on Arch Linux

Repository : extra
Name : polkit
Version : 124-2
Description : Application development toolkit for controlling system-wide
privileges
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit
Licenses : LGPL-2.0-or-later
Groups : None
Provides : libpolkit-agent-1.so=0-64 libpolkit-gobject-1.so=0-64
Depends On : duktape expat glib2 pam systemd
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 402.29 KiB
Installed Size : 1936.37 KiB
Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig)
Build Date : Sat Feb 10 07:28:57 2024
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature