polkit-gnome-0.104

Introduction to polkit-gnome

The polkit-gnome package provides an Authentication Agent for polkit that integrates well with the GNOME desktop environment.

This package is known to build using an LFS 7.0 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

polkit-gnome Dependencies

Required

gtk+-3.2.3 and polkit-0.102

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/polkit-gnome

Installation of polkit-gnome

Install polkit-gnome by running the following commands:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
    --libexecdir=/usr/lib/polkit-gnome &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Program: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
Installed Library: libpolkit-gtk-1.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/autostart, /usr/{include/polkit-gtk-1/polkitgtk, lib/polkit-gnome}

Short Descriptions

polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1

is the polkit-gnome authentication agent.

libpolkit-gtk-1.{so,a}

contains the polkit-gnome authentication agent API functions.

Last updated on 2012-02-08 00:48:17 +0000