How To Install kdesu on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdesu on Rocky Linux 8. kdesu is Runs a program with elevated privileges

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdesu on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `kdesu`

Runs a program with elevated privileges.

We can use yum or dnf to install kdesu on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kdesu.

Install kdesu on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install kdesu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install kdesu

Install kdesu on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install kdesu using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install kdesu

How To Uninstall kdesu on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the kdesu package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove kdesu

kdesu Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/kdesu
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/adf113cb3f4c17ae7eade0ab25027d7fcc8002
/usr/libexec/kf5/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ca/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/de/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/es/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/et/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/id/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/id/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/id/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/it/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/nl/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/pt_BR/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/ru/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr@latin/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr@latin/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sr@latin/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/sv/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kdesu
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kdesu/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/uk/kdesu/index.docbook
/usr/share/man/ca/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/et/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/id/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nb/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr@latin/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/kdesu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/kdesu.1.gz

References

kdesu website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install kdesu on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.