Bug 251817 - Provide option of running .run files and/or run them with root privileges
Summary: Provide option of running .run files and/or run them with root privileges
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 5522
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 16.12.2
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Peter Penz
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Reported: 2010-09-20 13:50 UTC by Kai Uwe Broulik
Modified: 2011-02-02 16:51 UTC (History)
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Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-09-20 13:50:48 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

(Is not really related to dolphin)

Many - especially propretary - software packages offer a .run script/archive as an installer. The most applications need root privileges for installing. The only way to install it with root privileges is via konsole which is not suitable for any end-user. There should be an entry in the “Action”-contextmenu stating “run with root privileges”. Shouldn‘t be that hard putting a .desktop file for that action in there.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2010-12-20 14:42:52 UTC 
It seems in Chakra (Arch with preconfigured KDE) a similar feature has been implemented. Too bad it is not in the default installation of KDE :(
Comment 2 FiNeX 2011-02-02 16:51:16 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5522 ***