[LUG] Debian 7 and sudo

[Neil Winchurst <barnaby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I thought I would have a look at Debian so I have installed v 7 Xfce in 
VBox. Since I normally use Ubuntu based distros I expected the 
installation to be similar. However I was asked to provide a root 
password and separately to set up a 'normal' user. Strange.

Anyway, I have been looking at it and I am well impressed so far. But, 
there is always a but, I cannot work out how to run a gui program as 
root. Normally for example, to run gedit as root I would enter gksudo 
gedit. I would be asked for the password and away we go.

Gksudo is not recognised in Debian. Also, in a terminal, I can't seem to 
use sudo.

Any experts out there please, who can set me on the right track?

Thanks

Neil


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