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On 14 Jun, 2013, at 9:04 am, Neil Winchurst wrote:
I thought I would have a look at Debian so I have installed v 7 Xfce in VBox. Since I normally use Ubuntu based distros I expected the installation to be similar. However I was asked to provide a root password and separately to set up a 'normal' user. Strange.Anyway, I have been looking at it and I am well impressed so far. But, there is always a but, I cannot work out how to run a gui program as root. Normally for example, to run gedit as root I would enter gksudo gedit. I would be asked for the password and away we go.Gksudo is not recognised in Debian. Also, in a terminal, I can't seem to use sudo.Any experts out there please, who can set me on the right track?
Shouldn't be hard to find the right refs on the Web, Neil. Have you looked?
Anyway: try 'su' and 'gksu' instead of 'sudo' and 'gksudo'. You use the root account's password, not your own.
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