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Nautilus Gksu Plugin – Add ‘Open As Administrator’ Option To Your Right Click Menu
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For past few days, I was missing a right-click menu option (in nautilus file manager) to open a file/folder as administrator. Reason being, for every operation that required root privileges, I had to go back to the command line terminal and use sudo. It’s not that I am not used to command line but still I wanted at least the availability of something equivalent to [sudo or su][1]). I searched around and found a nautilus plugin — **Nautilus-Gksu**.
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**NOTE** – All the examples presented in this article have been tested on Ubuntu 13.04
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**Nautilus-Gksu**
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**A Brief Tutorial**
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Nautilus-Gksu plugin adds a useful option to the right-click menu — **Open as administrator**. This helps a great deal while working with files and folders in nautilus file manager.
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For example, suppose you want to open root folder from nautilus file manager. Ideally a double-click open would fetch you an error like :
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But with nautilus gksu plug-in installed, all you need to do is to right-click on the folder and select ‘Open as administrator’ option.
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Once you click on this option, you will be prompted for a password.
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Just enter the password and do whatever you want.
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**Download/Install**
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As already mentioned, I use Ubuntu 13.04 for most of my articles these days and let me be honest that it was hard to install this plugin through recommended methods.
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This means that the commands like :
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sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu
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were not working as I was getting the following error :
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Reading package lists... Done
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Building dependency tree
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Reading state information... Done
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E: Unable to locate package nautilus-gksu
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I googled the problem and found that I am not the only one facing this problem but many other Ubuntu 13.04 users are also facing a [similar kind of problem][2]. Anyway, I kept on looking for a solution, until I found a [pointer to the solution][3]. I read the complete post on [AskUbuntu][4] and tried the steps mentioned for Ubuntu 12.04.
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Here is a snapshot of that post :
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After reading the post above, I followed the following steps :
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- Downloaded the [64 bit package of the plugin][5]. [Mine is a 64 bit system]
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- Extracted the downloaded .deb file.
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- Executed the following command :
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sudo cp /home/himanshu/Downloads/nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_amd64/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/
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After these 3 steps, the plug-in was installed successfully.
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**Pros**
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Lets you easily open any file or folder with root privileges on a right-click.
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**Cons**
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Installation on Ubuntu 13.04 is not easy
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**Conclusion**
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If you are work involves using Nautilus file manager for your daily file management then this plug-in is a must have for you. Though it is not easy to install on Ubuntu 13.04 but still its worth the effort.
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via: http://mylinuxbook.com/nautilus-gksu/
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本文由 [LCTT][] 原创翻译，[Linux中国][] 荣誉推出
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[1]:http://mylinuxbook.com/sudo-vs-su-in-ubuntu-linux/
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[2]:http://askubuntu.com/questions/314267/how-can-i-install-nautilus-gksu
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[3]:http://s5407.socode.info/question/5152c20be8432c04268cee15
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[4]:http://askubuntu.com/questions/78116/where-is-the-open-as-administrator-option-in-nautilus-gone
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[5]:http://ubuntu.mirror.cambrium.nl/ubuntu//pool/main/g/gksu/nautilus-gksu_2.0.2-5ubuntu2_amd64.deb |