GRUB badly broken during upgrade

[Colin Law]

On 7 October 2012 18:23, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
> I've also been told that gksu(1) would help for some things, but I've
> never really understood the difference between it and sudo well enough
> to know when to use it.

It is usually easy to know which to use.  If the command will just to
run in the terminal (eg apt-get update) then use sudo.  If it will
bring up a graphical interface (gksu means graphical sudo) such as
gedit or nautilus then use gksu.

Colin