kdesudo

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> On Tuesday 21 October 2008 11:50:49 am Willy K. Hamra wrote:
>> Jim Douglas wrote:
>> > why doesn't this command work,
>> >
>> > kdesudo kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>> > (I also tried kdesudo kate)
>> >
>> > I can start kate...
>> >
>> > When I run kdesudo it comes back with a command not found error.
>> >
>> > ...apt-get install says kdesudo is installed.
>> > This is kde4 with Kubuntu...
>>
>> intrepid or hardy? not sure it makes a difference either way.
>> i have intrepid here, and the above command works flawlessly from the
>> run dialog (alt+f2) and from konsole.
> 
> Does not work in 8.04.1 with KDE 3.5.10.  kdesu works fine.

works fine for me.  Since kdesu is only supposed to be a symlink to kdesudo,
I'd have to guess that you have (both) somehow managed to not install
the "kdesudo" package.
-- 
derek