How to Install and Uninstall mate-polkit Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: April 28,2024

1. Install "mate-polkit" package

This tutorial shows how to install mate-polkit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                mate-polkit
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "mate-polkit" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall mate-polkit on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mate-polkit
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mate-polkit package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: mate-polkit
Priority: optional
Section: universe/x11
Installed-Size: 70
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: MATE Packaging Team
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.12.0-3
Provides: policykit-1-gnome
Depends: accountsservice, mate-polkit-common (= 1.12.0-3), policykit-1, libappindicator1 (>= 0.2.91), libc6 (>= 2.4), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libpolkit-agent-1-0 (>= 0.99), libpolkit-gobject-1-0 (>= 0.99)
Filename: pool/universe/m/mate-polkit/mate-polkit_1.12.0-3_amd64.deb
Size: 16880
MD5sum: 461b11c10feae1c665b8529e001f2ef7
SHA1: de22f39f77ecf2290c0caaca60c72e9d4cdf8f6c
SHA256: cf241cfe9f49726682ceb64108466f49c9818dde28b5b8ad9c7ac9f0b99e176b
Description-en: MATE authentication agent for PolicyKit-1
The mate-polkit package provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to
bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.
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This package contains the MATE policy kit authentication agent.
Description-md5: 9da547a2d009861d581b2f4aa498550a
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: http://www.mate-desktop.org/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 3y
Task: ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop, ubuntu-mate-cloudtop