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[Warren Hill <warren-hill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Apologies, If you have already seen this but It was the first message I
tried to send using my ubuntu.com email address and I'm not sure it
worked so I'm sending again from my normal address

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I discovered from the beta2 CD image that with 13.04 gksu and gksudo
are 
part of a standard Ubuntu install.  I have not checked the other 
variants however.

I have checked with the development team on IRC #ubuntu-devel and this 
is not a bug.  gksu and gksudo are not the preferred way to use GUI 
applications as root any more and while you can install both on Raring
with:

  sudo apt-get install gksu

It is likely that these will be removed future versions of Ubuntu. I 
have summarised what I was advised in  this answer / question on Ask
Ubuntu

http://askubuntu.com/a/284717/107450

Please be aware of this change in policy when answering questions on
the 
forums and updating documentation.

This page will need to be updated
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

and  we can probably think of other web pages this will apply to.

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Warren Hill https://launchpad.net/~warren-hill