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.