gksudo 16.10

[Colin Law]

On 5 November 2016 at 10:52, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 12:12 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> If you preserve the right envvars, like DISPLAY and XAUTHORITY, it's
> very simple.
>

I don't class that as easy, certainly not for the average Ubuntu user.

Colin
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