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Rilcon42
Asked: 2016-10-09 14:14:56 +0800 CST

Cannot run programs as sudo from launcher

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I am trying to create a launcher with this command input:

gksu sh -c "~/evelauncher/evelauncher.sh"

but it fails. When I enter:

sudo ~/evelauncher/evelauncher.sh

in terminal it works perfectly (with text output) and starts the program. Can someone explain why the launcher doesnt work? The launcher has read-write access as my user, and the "execute files as programs" checkbox is checked.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Try this command instead (replacing YOURUSERNAME with the appropriate value):

    gksu sh /home/YOURUSERNAME/evelauncher/evelauncher.sh

    First, it replaces the ~ with your actual absolute home directory path.
    Second, you don't need to pass the script path as command string to sh, it can directly interpret script files.

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  2. Tilde (~) doesn't expand inside quotes. You could remove the quotes:

    gksu sh ~/evelauncher/evelauncher.sh

    Or use $HOME instead:

    gksu sh "$HOME/evelauncher/evelauncher.sh"
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