Ubuntu
gui-apt-key package

child process "/usr/bin/su-to-root" (No such file)

Bug #282185 reported by Donnie Pennington
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gui-apt-key (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gui-apt-key

Intrepid gui-apt-key installed menu item attempts to launch using /usr/bin/su-to-root. This command does not exist (see attached error screenshot). The Hardy package for gui-apt-key uses gksu to launch, which does exist.
gui-apt-key:
  Installed: 0.4-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.4-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.4-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10

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Donnie Pennington (donniepennington) wrote :
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Donnie Pennington (donniepennington) wrote :
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Conrad Knauer (atheoi) wrote :

Please fix this. The problem is in the file
/usr/share/applications/gui-apt-key.desktop
in the line that reads:

Exec=/usr/bin/su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/gak

Changed in gui-apt-key (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Conrad Knauer (atheoi) wrote :

So I just noticed in Karmic when I tried to run:

$ su-to-root -X gak
The program 'su-to-root' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install menu

Indeed, installing the package "menu" resolves the error (though doesn't get it working on my system, but that's another bug ;)

So really, this bug seems to just be a package dependency problem...

Please have gui-apt-key depend on menu.

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