2017-07-16 1:57 GMT+02:00 Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet@xxxxxxxx>: > 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@archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /usr/bin/kdesu > ls: cannot access '/usr/bin/kdesu': No such file or directory > [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls -hAl /usr/bin/kdesu* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jul 12 09:41 /usr/bin/kdesu4 -> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu > [rocketmouse@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@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]