Install gksu on Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install gksu
Learn how to install gksu with the command sudo apt-get install gksu on Ubuntus.
Quick installation of gksu:
Step 1: Update system:
sudo apt-get update
Step 2: Install: gksu
Ater updaing the OS run following command to install the packae:
sudo apt-get install gksu
Package Details | |
| Package: | gksu |
| Version: | 2.0.2-6ubuntu1 |
| Maintainer: | Ubuntu Developers |
| Home page: | http://www.nongnu.org/gksu |
| Description: | graphical frontend to su gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another program as another user. Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/gksu |
| Distro: | Ubuntu 12.04 LTS |
| Release: | |
| Repo/Section: | admin |
How to install gksu on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
First of all update your system with the command:
sudo apt-get update
Above command will download the package lists for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on your system. This will update the list of newest versions of packages and its dependencies on your system.
After downloading the latest package list with the help of above you can run the installation process.
If gksu is not installed on your compter then the command 'dpkg -L gksu' will give followin error.
Installing gksu:
After system update use the following command to install gksu:
sudo apt-get install gksu
Above command will confirm before installing the package on your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Operating System. If you are not already logged in as su, installer will ask you the root password. After completion of the installation you can use the package on your system.
How to uninstall/remove gksu from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS?
Now we will see the commands for uninstalling the gksu from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. For uninstalling this package you can easily use the apt command and remove the package from Linux Operating System.
To remove the gksu following command is used:
sudo apt-get remove gksu
Following command is used to remove the gksu package along with its dependencies:
sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove gksu
This will remove gksu and all its dependent packages which is no longer needed in the system.
Completely removing gksu with all configuration files:
Following command should be used with care as it deletes all the configuration files and data:
sudo apt-get purge gksu
or you can use following command also:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove gksu
Above command will remove all the configuration files and data associated with gksu package. You can can't recover the delete data, so, use this command with care.