Bug 251817

Summary:	Provide option of running .run files and/or run them with root privileges
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Kai Uwe Broulik <KaiUweBroulik2>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

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 ***