mate-polkit command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

mate-polkit: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: mate-polkit: command not found

Solutions to mate-polkit: command not found

How To Fix mate-polkit: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu mate-polkit is provided by mate-polkit-bin package.

mate-polkit-bin is:

The mate-polkit package provides a D-Bus session bus service that is used to bring up authentication dialogs used for obtaining privileges.

This package contains an executable wrapper script for the MATE policy kit authentication agent.

This package eases using mate-polkit as PolicyKit-1 authentication agent on non-MATE desktop environments that don’t auto-launch their own authentication agent (e.g., i3, awesome, ratpoison and alike).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install mate-polkit-bin

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install mate-polkit-bin.

sudo apt -y install mate-polkit-bin

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install mate-polkit-bin

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix mate-polkit command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.