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How To Run Apps As Root From The GUI In Ubuntu 22.04

If you are no longer able to use gksudo or gksu to run a shortcut as root in Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04, that’s because those apps have been removed. However, you can now use the ‘pkexec’ command instead.

For example:

pkexec app_name
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