How To Install polkit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. polkit.i686 is An authorization framework

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `polkit.i686`

polkit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.

We can use yum to install polkit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install polkit.i686.

Install polkit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install polkit.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install polkit.i686

How To Uninstall polkit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the polkit.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove polkit.i686

polkit.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.conf
/etc/pam.d/polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d
/etc/polkit-1/rules.d/50-default.rules
/usr/bin/pkaction
/usr/bin/pkcheck
/usr/bin/pkexec
/usr/bin/pkttyagent
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/Polkit-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/PolkitAgent-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libpolkit-agent-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libpolkit-agent-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libpolkit-gobject-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/polkit-1
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
/usr/lib/polkit-1/polkitd
/usr/lib/systemd/system/polkit.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.service
/usr/share/doc/polkit-0.112
/usr/share/doc/polkit-0.112/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/polkit-0.112/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/polkit-0.112/README
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/polkit-1.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/pkaction.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkcheck.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkexec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pkttyagent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/polkit.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/polkitd.8.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d

References

polkit.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install polkit.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.