How To Install gksu on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gksu
on Debian 9.
What is gksu
gksu is:
This package provides GTK+ front-ends for su (gksu) and sudo (gksudo), allowing users to give a password and run graphical commands as root without needing to invoke su or sudo in a terminal emulator.
There are three methods to install gksu
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install gksu Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install gksu
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install gksu
Install gksu Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install gksu
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install gksu
Install gksu Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install gksu
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install gksu
How To Uninstall gksu on Debian 9
To uninstall only the gksu
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove gksu
Uninstall gksu And Its Dependencies
To uninstall gksu
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove gksu
Remove gksu Configurations and Data
To remove gksu
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge gksu
Remove gksu configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove gksu
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge gksu
Dependencies
gksu have the following dependencies:
- gconf-service
- libatk1.0-0
- libc6
- libcairo2
- libfontconfig1
- libfreetype6
- libgconf-2-4
- libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
- libgksu2-0
- libglib2.0-0
- libgnome-keyring0
- libgtk2.0-0
- libpango-1.0-0
- libpangocairo-1.0-0
- libpangoft2-1.0-0
- libstartup-notification0
- sudo
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gksu
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.