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Package: gksu (2.0.2-2ubuntu1)

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Maintainer:

Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainers (usually from Debian):

  • Gustavo Noronha Silva
  • Debian GNOME Maintainers (Mail Archive)
  • Gustavo Noronha Silva
  • Josselin Mouette

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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graphical frontend to su

gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. It supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another program as another user.

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  • dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.4)
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  • dep: libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4)
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  • dep: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0)
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  • dep: libfreetype6 (>= 2.2.1)
    FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
  • dep: libgconf2-4 (>= 2.23.2)
    GNOME configuration database system (shared libraries)
  • dep: libgksu2-0 (>= 2.0.8)
    library providing su and sudo functionality
  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0)
    The GLib library of C routines
  • dep: libgnome-keyring0 (>= 2.25.90)
    GNOME keyring services library
  • dep: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0)
    The GTK+ graphical user interface library
  • dep: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0)
    Layout and rendering of internationalized text
  • dep: libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.10)
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  • dep: sudo
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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 40.5 kB168 kB [list of files]
i386 40.0 kB168 kB [list of files]