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#26 Other Issues » polkit not available in Beowulf? » 2018-09-06 06:45:21
- willbprogz227
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Hello everyone! 
Please forgive me if I'm asking in the wrong place, but I've installed Devuan Beowulf on a couple of machines and all is well *except* for polkit agents not being available. This means that I can't use pkexec, nor can application .desktop files that require it.
It looks like polkit agents are available and working fine in Ascii, however.
For example:
$ sudo apt install lxpolkit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
lxpolkit : Depends: policykit-1 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
$ sudo apt install policykit-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
policykit-1 : Depends: libpam-systemd but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.I'm using Beowulf because I need the newer versions of packages in it. Ascii's packages aren't new enough for some of my needs.
Are polkit agents not going to be included in Beowulf, or are they just not ready yet?
Thanks! 
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