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gksu Removed From Ubuntu, Here’s What You Can Use Instead

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Abhishek Prakash
Apr 23, 2018

gksu has been been removed from Debian, Ubuntu 18.04 and other Linux distros. However, you can still get its functionality by using gvfs admin backend. This post from It’s Foss guides you on how to do it.
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