Bug 195293 - kdesu doesn't work without creating symbolic link first
Summary: kdesu doesn't work without creating symbolic link first
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: kdesu
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Mandriva RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kdesu bugs tracker
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Reported: 2009-06-05 04:31 UTC by David Batson
Modified: 2009-10-11 16:21 UTC (History)
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Description David Batson 2009-06-05 04:31:58 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

If I open Konsole, type kdesu and press the ENTER key, nothing happens.  I discovered on the Mandriva forums that a symbolic link needs to be made first for kdesu to work.  Other users reported the same.

ln -s /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu /usr/bin/

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=112518

I filed a bug report on Mandriva's bugzilla, but was directed to post the bug upstream at kde.org.

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=51438
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2009-10-11 16:21:50 UTC 
i think the de-facto consensus within the community is to leave "fixing" this up to packagers. the official way to use in scripts is calling
  KDESU=`kde4-config --path libexec --locate kdesu`