Run as root on Fedora 14 KDE?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 04/19/2011 - 12:05
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I need to run BleachBit as Root on Fedora 14 KDE, When I go into my settings menu it only lists one BleachBit, there is no Run as Administrator for BleachBit, so if I try through the terminal (Konsole) I get this...

[David@Fedora14-KDE ~]$ su -c bleachbit
Password:
No protocol specified
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/bleachbit", line 41, in
import gtk
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 64, in
_init()
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py", line 52, in _init
_gtk.init_check()
RuntimeError: could not open display
[David@Fedora14-KDE ~]$

What do I do? How do I run it as root?

andrew

Tue, 04/19/2011 - 13:38

Try
sudo bleachbit

Did you get BleachBit from the Fedora repo or from this web site?

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Andrew, lead developer

flan_suse

Sat, 04/23/2011 - 07:40

Since you are on KDE, you can also try:

kdesu bleachbit

andrew

Tue, 12/02/2014 - 14:52

I know this is an old issue, but if you still have this problem, please consider updating to BleachBit 1.6 which has a fix for escalating privileges on KDE

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Andrew, lead developer