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I've tried several times to update my Discord. It's a simple .deb download, and I open up the file to run in gDebi, click Install, and the whole box goes away and nothing happens.
i need this info as well. i am on Bodhi 5.0 and i just cant run DEB files like the OP. to even use synaptic requires sudo synaptic to run but opera and team viewer are not in this, only via deb files from their sites.
Distribution: Ubuntu with custom LXDE-GTK & Bodhi Linux
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Originally Posted by zaivala
I've tried several times to update my Discord. It's a simple .deb download, and I open up the file to run in gDebi, click Install, and the whole box goes away and nothing happens.
Chances are you need to run a policykit like lxpolkit. It needs to be enabled in the start up apps.
Last edited by Randy4bodhi; 03-17-2019 at 04:36 AM.
Reason: grammer
When I installed Bodhi 5.0.0, I was told that esudo conflicted with policykit, was told to update policykit2 and disable esudo. Now I'm being told to reinstall esudo... has the conflict with policykit been resolved? Anyhow, going now to run the supposed fix.
zaivala@zaivala-ThinkPad-T430:~$ sudo apt install --reinstall esudo
[sudo] password for zaivala:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,868 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://packages.bodhilinux.com/bodhi bionic/b5main amd64 esudo all 1.39bodhi8 [7,868 B]
Fetched 7,868 B in 0s (25.9 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 189093 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../esudo_1.39bodhi8_all.deb ...
Unpacking esudo (1.39bodhi8) over (1.39bodhi8) ...
File /usr/bin/pkexec-old exists, moving it back now that esudo is removed
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3.18.04.2) ...
Setting up esudo (1.39bodhi8) ...
File /usr/bin/pkexec exists, replacing it with esudo
zaivala@zaivala-ThinkPad-T430:~$
I dunno about the policykit stuff. I just know that reinstalling esudo fixes this when it happens for me. Maybe the policykit thing is a permanent fix, if so I'm also interested in how to do it. Where'd you get the advice to disable esudo?
When I installed Bodhi 5.0.0, I was told that esudo conflicted with policykit, was told to update policykit2 and disable esudo. Now I'm being told to reinstall esudo... has the conflict with policykit been resolved? Anyhow, going now to run the supposed fix.
No the esudo conflict with policykit has not been resolved. In some cases and for some apps reinstalling esudo after policykit has broken its substitution for pkexec works. But it does not work across the board for all applications using pkexec.
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Originally Posted by enigma9o7
I dunno about the policykit stuff. I just know that reinstalling esudo fixes this when it happens for me. Maybe the policykit thing is a permanent fix, if so I'm also interested in how to do it. Where'd you get the advice to disable esudo?
The advice came from me. And disabling esudo is not what was suggested, I merely suggested marking it so that it is never updated unless you force an update.
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Makes me wonder if this isn't related to Ubuntu removing gksudo from it's repo and distro and instead trying to use pkexec and the admin:// path instead. Isn't esudo another form of gksudo?
I use a file manager action with pcmanfm, to open folders as admin. I had to create a policy in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions, and a script for pcmanfm-pkexec in /usr/bin The Ubuntu way of using admin://some/folder is a pain. all ya get done doing is entering your password.
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