Gnome users can control infrared devices with ease using gnome-lirc-properties package. The package integrates Lirc, a widely popular infrared remote control software, with Gnome properties.
When installing gnome-lirc-properties package, ensure that you utilize the following configure options, especially if you are using Ubuntu. This guarantees that all PolicyKit and D-Bus components get installed in their appropriate directories:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib
If you're unable to locate PolicyKit and PolicyKit-gnome from your package manager, you can obtain them from < >.
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