Re: Editing the DNS with Network Manager Non Root
David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:
> On 5/15/22 06:53, Richmond wrote:
>> David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> writes:
>>> On 5/14/22 05:57, Richmond wrote:
>>>> <tomas@tuxteam.de> 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.
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