Root Access

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# 2.5. Root Access

KPackage requires root access for installing/uninstalling packages, this can be can be done by running KPackage as root, say by using kdesu .

Alternatively, if KPackage is running as a normal user it will try to run the install/uninstall programs a root by logging in to a psuedo terminal, it will use either SU or SSH to do this and if needed it will pop up a terminal window where the root password can be typed. For this to work the root prompt has to end in "# " .

This doesn't work for RPM packages, because they are handled internally by KPackage .

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