David Christensen <[email protected]> writes: > On 5/15/22 06:53, Richmond wrote: >> David Christensen <[email protected]> writes: >>> On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote: >>>> <[email protected]> writes: >>>>> On Sat, May 14, 2022 at 10:50:46AM +0100, Richmond wrote: > >>>>>> Is there a debian package for this? : >>>>>> >>>>>> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xfce-polkit >>>>>> >>>>>> "A simple PolicyKit authentication agent for XFCE" > >>> My Debian 11 Xfce has the following, installed by >>> debian-11.3.0-amd64-netinst.iso: >>> >>> 2022-05-14 15:13:47 root@laalaa ~ # dpkg-query -l '*polkit*' >>> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold >>> | >>> >>> Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend >>> |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name >>> Version Architecture Description >>> +++-===========================-================-============-=================> >>> ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 GObject >>> introspec> >>> un gir1.2-polkitagent-1.0 <none> <none> (no description a> ii >>> libpolkit-agent-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit Authent> ii >>> libpolkit-gobject-1-0:amd64 0.105-31+deb11u1 amd64 PolicyKit Authori> >>> un polkit-1-auth-agent <none> <none> (no description a> >> >> I got it working! that's the good news, the bad news is I am not sure >> how. I installed all the packages above (except polkit-1-auth-agent >> which seems to be an unreal package) but it still didn't work. Then I >> went into synaptic (which incidentally did not prompt for a password) >> and searched for xfce and found some packages relating to the panel >> which were not installed, nor part of the xfce meta package. Also I >> installed policykit-1-gnome which unfortunately doesn't come up on >> searches for polkit. I think this last one may be the culprit but not >> sure. >> Thanks for your help, and the others. > > > I would say "you are welcome", but it sounds like your system is in a > crumbling state. I would backup/ check-in, pull the OS drive, insert > a fresh OS drive, do a fresh install, and check-out/ restore/ > reconfigure. > > > David
It isn't in a crumbling state, it just had a missing package. And this was probably due to an undeclared dependence.
