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The installer put up a dialog about authenticating as root, but it appears to be hung. What happened?

April 26, 2017appears authenticating dialog happened hung installer

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The installer put up a dialog about authenticating as root, but it appears to be hung. What happened?

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The installer probably had trouble using kdesu, gnomesu or gksu to authenticate as root. To work around this, run the install.sh script with root privileges.