MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for kate-root [2]: Abandoned old mod from last year of kate text editor, available in repo. Custom-patched to allow running it as root. But this is not needed at all. Kate is able to request sudo credentials on-demand when needed, and it also supports the admin:// protocol. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/kate-root/