Can not install nautilus-gksu in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS [duplicate]

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I am trying to install nautilus-gksu in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu but I am having the following error.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package nautilus-gksu

I also tried How can I install nautilus-gksu? but It did not work. Is there a way to install it.

David Foerster · Accepted Answer · 2018-03-13 09:02:49Z

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gksu is now deprecated.

I believe the proper way to open nautilus as root would be to use sudo -i instead.

Here's an example:

sudo -i nautilus &

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A.B. · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-21 04:56:52Z

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nautilus-gksu isn't a package for Ubuntu since 12.04. The binaries gksu and gksudo are in the package gksu.

Therefore install via

sudo apt-get install gksu

answered Sep 21, 2015 at 4:56

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