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Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: Why is gksu no longer installed by default?

Historically we have used gksu a lot here but this means that in the future, we should probably scale down its use in favour of plain sudo (or sudo -i). Use the comments and answers to hammer out a best-practice if you feel there is a technical issue here.

There is a compelling argument that we move to pkexec. I just tried it here (on Kubuntu 13.04) and it worked beautifully from the terminal, a run box and from a TTY (it has a text-only mode too), but it doesn't work on a 12.04 headless server and I don't know how this works on older desktops. Comments?

###Note: I'm not suggesting an edit storm!

I am not saying we should nuke every example of gksu. Users will be prompted to install it and they can do that...

I'm only suggesting that if you're writing a new answer, you avoid gksu.

###Edit: If you need to edit something, concentrate on answers about 13.04 and newer.

In this case a quick search will work:

• https://askubuntu.com/search?q=[13.04]+is:answer+gksu*

This query will probably return more results in time, but hopefully by posting this PSA now, we'll stop too many new answers showing incorrect information.

###And once more, if you edit, please make sure you're replacing it with the right thing.

Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: Why is gksu no longer installed by default?

Historically we have used gksu a lot here but this means that in the future, we should probably scale down its use in favour of plain sudo (or sudo -i). Use the comments and answers to hammer out a best-practice if you feel there is a technical issue here.

There is a compelling argument that we move to pkexec. I just tried it here (on Kubuntu 13.04) and it worked beautifully from the terminal, a run box and from a TTY (it has a text-only mode too), but it doesn't work on a 12.04 headless server and I don't know how this works on older desktops. Comments?

Note: I'm not suggesting an edit storm!

I am not saying we should nuke every example of gksu. Users will be prompted to install it and they can do that...

I'm only suggesting that if you're writing a new answer, you avoid gksu.

Edit: If you need to edit something, concentrate on answers about 13.04 and newer.

In this case a quick search will work:

• https://askubuntu.com/search?q=[13.04]+is:answer+gksu*

This query will probably return more results in time, but hopefully by posting this PSA now, we'll stop too many new answers showing incorrect information.

And once more, if you edit, please make sure you're replacing it with the right thing.

Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: Why is gksu no longer installed by default?

Historically we have used gksu a lot here but this means that in the future, we should probably scale down its use in favour of plain sudo (or sudo -i). Use the comments and answers to hammer out a best-practice if you feel there is a technical issue here.

There is a compelling argument that we move to pkexec. I just tried it here (on Kubuntu 13.04) and it worked beautifully from the terminal, a run box and from a TTY (it has a text-only mode too), but it doesn't work on a 12.04 headless server and I don't know how this works on older desktops. Comments?

###Note: I'm not suggesting an edit storm!

I am not saying we should nuke every example of gksu. Users will be prompted to install it and they can do that...

I'm only suggesting that if you're writing a new answer, you avoid gksu.

###Edit: If you need to edit something, concentrate on answers about 13.04 and newer.

In this case a quick search will work:

• http://askubuntu.com/search?q=[13.04]+is:answer+gksu*

This query will probably return more results in time, but hopefully by posting this PSA now, we'll stop too many new answers showing incorrect information.

###And once more, if you edit, please make sure you're replacing it with the right thing.

Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: Why is gksu no longer installed by default?

Historically we have used gksu a lot here but this means that in the future, we should probably scale down its use in favour of plain sudo (or sudo -i). Use the comments and answers to hammer out a best-practice if you feel there is a technical issue here.

There is a compelling argument that we move to pkexec. I just tried it here (on Kubuntu 13.04) and it worked beautifully from the terminal, a run box and from a TTY (it has a text-only mode too), but it doesn't work on a 12.04 headless server and I don't know how this works on older desktops. Comments?

###Note: I'm not suggesting an edit storm!

I am not saying we should nuke every example of gksu. Users will be prompted to install it and they can do that...

I'm only suggesting that if you're writing a new answer, you avoid gksu.

###Edit: If you need to edit something, concentrate on answers about 13.04 and newer.

In this case a quick search will work:

• https://askubuntu.com/search?q=[13.04]+is:answer+gksu*

This query will probably return more results in time, but hopefully by posting this PSA now, we'll stop too many new answers showing incorrect information.

###And once more, if you edit, please make sure you're replacing it with the right thing.

Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: Why is gksu no longer installed by default?

Historically we have used gksu a lot here but this changes means that in future, we should probably scale down its use in favour of plain sudo (or sudo -i). Use the comments and answers to hammer out a best-practice if you feel there is a technical issue here.

There is a compelling argument that we move to pkexec. I just tried it here (on Kubuntu 13.04) and it worked beautifully from the terminal, a run box and from a TTY (it has a text-only mode too), but it doesn't work on a 12.04 headless server and I don't know how this works on older desktops. Comments?

###Note: I'm not suggesting an edit storm!

I am not saying we should nuke every example of gksu. Users will be prompted to install it and they can do that...

I'm only suggesting that if you're writing a new answer, you avoid gksu.

###Edit: If you need to edit something, concentrate on answers about 13.04 and newer.

In this case a quick search will work:

• http://askubuntu.com/search?q=[13.04]+is:answer+gksu*

This query will probably return more results in time, but hopefully by posting this PSA now, we'll stop too many new answers showing incorrect information.

###And once more, if you edit, please make sure you're replacing it with the right thing.

Turns out gksu is no longer installed by default. Some things still depend on it so it might be installed on your system - but on a clean install, it seems it's no longer required. As for why, see: Why is gksu no longer installed by default?

Historically we have used gksu a lot here but this means that in the future, we should probably scale down its use in favour of plain sudo (or sudo -i). Use the comments and answers to hammer out a best-practice if you feel there is a technical issue here.

There is a compelling argument that we move to pkexec. I just tried it here (on Kubuntu 13.04) and it worked beautifully from the terminal, a run box and from a TTY (it has a text-only mode too), but it doesn't work on a 12.04 headless server and I don't know how this works on older desktops. Comments?

###Note: I'm not suggesting an edit storm!

I am not saying we should nuke every example of gksu. Users will be prompted to install it and they can do that...

I'm only suggesting that if you're writing a new answer, you avoid gksu.

###Edit: If you need to edit something, concentrate on answers about 13.04 and newer.

In this case a quick search will work:

• http://askubuntu.com/search?q=[13.04]+is:answer+gksu*

This query will probably return more results in time, but hopefully by posting this PSA now, we'll stop too many new answers showing incorrect information.

###And once more, if you edit, please make sure you're replacing it with the right thing.