[arch-general] Can not run kdesu kate

[sL1pKn07 SpinFlo]

2017-07-16 1:57 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com>:
> On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 23:37:54 +0000, Junayeed Ahnaf wrote:
>>Freshly installed arch with KDE and I can not run kdesu kate
>>filename . When I enter this command it asks for a password and after
>>that it does absolutely nothing. What can I do ?
>
> Hi,
>
> did you expect "sudo" or "su"? IOW did you type the correct password
> "user" or "root" password? Did you run it from command line to get
> detailed information?
>
> On my system I've got "kdesu4" installed, but there is no "kdesu"
> available.
>
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /usr/bin/kdesu
> ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/kdesu': No such file or directory
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /usr/bin/kdesu*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 12 09:41 /usr/bin/kdesu4 -> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/bin/kdesu4
> /usr/bin/kdesu4 is owned by kdebase-runtime 17.04.3-1
>
> So if I e.g. type
>
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ kdesu xed
> bash: kdesu: command not found
>
> I get "command not found".
>
> Btw. I don't use it ;).
>
> Seemingly the command "kdesu" does exist on your machine, but it seems
> to be configured incorrectly.
>
> Did you take care of
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sudo#kdesu
>
> ?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

kdesu is part of kde-cli-tools from [extra]