Re: [gcmd-usr] Commander as root

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Hello Bonnie,

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
On Thursday, October 15, 2020 1:42 PM, Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell@qis.net> wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020, José Young wrote:
>
> > I have been using Gnome Commander for a number of years, but recently
> > updated my system to Mint 19.3. when I tried to go to the root user mode, I
> > got a message saying that I lacked:
> > xdg-su
> > gksu
> > gnomesu
> > kdsu
> > beesu
> > Hopefully someone can have an idea as to how to solve this.
> > Thanks,
> > José
>
> those all refer to the command line command "sudo"
>
> i think you only need one of them installed forgname commander to work.
> ont
>
> do you have synaptic package manager installed on your mint boot?
>
> if so open it and then search for and if present install gksu
>
> that should install gksu and libgksu2
>
> i think any one of them will work. i seem to have gksu on my current
> xubuntu boot and gnome commander option for open as root is working.
>
> i am currenlty using ubuntu 18.04
>
> my frustration is not getting gnomecommander to work unter ununtu 20.04
>
> > md-users mailing list
> > gcmd-users@nongnu.org
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcmd-users
>
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This is bringing back memories (and headaches :-)  I mainly run CentOS 7. 
CentOS (or RHEL) does not have gsudu nor gksu which I had been spoiled with in 
Ubuntu. I had several launchers which would let me run gui programs as root 
when needed.  I tried "Start GNOME Commander as root" on my main CentOS 7 MATE 
workstation. No problem! (?) I then tried it on a CentOS 7 virtual machine. I 
received the same error as the original poster. Long story short... I have k3b 
(CD/DVD burner) installed on the workstation. It brought along a train load of 
KDE packages including kdsu. I did not want that on the VM so I just now 
installed beesu. I can now start GC as root although I am asked for root's 
password, not mine even though I am in the sudoers file. Oh well. Bottom line, 
installing one of the listed packages should certainly solve the problem.

As to running g-c on Ubuntu 20.04... I have done that but am currently 
evaluating what sort of a mess I have created. Keep an eye on the lists as I 
will be posting my findings shortly.

Cheers,

Ken Taylor
Clayton, NC USA