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For example, a lot of guides (including the first book ever published about Ubuntu) will ask you to type this sort of command:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

the author of this post will always recommend, however, that people use instead this sort of command:

gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

This is also recommended and included in the Ubuntu community documents

To gain superuser powers for a graphical program for such as

1

gedit

you should not use

1

sudo

. Example of a incorrect command:

1	sudo gedit

For Ubuntu you should instead use

1

gksudo

. Example:

1	gksudo gedit

I find ”

is a frontend to

and

is a frontend to

. Their primary purpose is to run graphical commands that need root without the need to run an X terminal emulator and using

directly”.

Reference:

1. http://tinyurl.com/d35hwm