gksudo 16.10

[Colin Law]

On 4 November 2016 at 18:40, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> > You can't install gksudo, but need to run an editor with root
> > privileges? However, what should be the advantage of gksudo over sudo?
> >
> > apt update && apt install gksu
>
> Exactly. There's no gksudo package. It's gksu that provides gksu and
> gksudo.
>
> But gksu was deprecated a long time ago, but it was moved from "main"
> to "universe" with 14.04 (LTS-wise; maybe it was moved earlier when
> all releases are taken into account) probably because some DEs still
> use it.
>

Deprecated it may be, but I don't know how else easily to run something
like gedit with sudo permissions.

Colin
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