ANSWERED Ubuntu 18.04 no gksu

[Boris88 0]

Hey,

 

I lately upgraded to ubuntu 18.04 and tried to install eddie.

For some reason gksu was removed from ubuntu and this made me do some little investigation and I found that gksu has been deprecated.

It was first removed from Debian and then Canonical decided to drop it from Ubuntu 18.04. Application developers are suggested to use PolicyKit instead.

 

Here is a quick fix for this issue :

 

1.Add artful repositories to the system:

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/artful.list
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ artful universe
EOF

2.Update package cache

sudo apt-get update

3.Install gksu package

sudo apt-get install gksu

4.Remove artful repository from system for safety

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/artful.list
sudo apt-get update

 

Will be there any updates or something, to the client ?

 

Regards Boris

[Staff 9973]

Will be there any updates or something, to the client ?

 

Regards Boris

 

 

Hello!

 

Yes, gksu dependency has been already removed from Eddie 2.14.4beta deb package. Otherwise you need to stick to the portable stable version or install gksu as you describe. Anyway Eddie 2.14.x is quickly reaching the stability stage.

 

Kind regards