[Slackbuilds-users] gksu set of packages not working

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Thu Dec 5 10:27:51 UTC 2013


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> hello, there seems to be a bug with the gksu set of packages
> (libgtop+libgksu+gksu). they all built and installed, but I get an
> error when I run it.
>
> There's a thread on LQ about this,
> https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/solved-can%27t-get-gksu-to-work-784919/
>
>
> I first got this error "The gksu-run-helper command was not found or
> is not executable."
>
> Then I did "mkdir /usr/lib/libgksu
>  ln -s /usr/lib64/libgksu/gksu-run-helper
> /usr/lib/libgksu/gksu-run-helper"
>
> and got this error-"Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.
>  Received:
>
>  ssword:
>  While expecting:
>   gksu: waiting"

For now, the solution is to use su
libgksu and gksu are no longer maintained, so i guess it's time to say
good bye as no other packages depends on gksu either


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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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