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gksu Removed From Ubuntu, Here’s The Recommended Replacement

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Apr 19, 2018

The gksu package, which provides GTK+ front-ends for su (gksu) and sudo (gksudo), was removed from the Ubuntu 18.04 repositories, so it won’t be available starting with this Ubuntu release. But how can you edit system files using a GUI without gksu?
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