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Pete --

This is one of those cases where you're trying to solve a problem most of us seldom bother with (that of running a graphical text editor with root-user authority). Speaking at least for myself, I just use a console editor, instead (in my case, vim, which I have the odd taste to actually like).

There's no reason why you can't do that yourself, using the novice-friendly console text editor of your choice (ae, ee, nano, joe, etc.), like this:

Open a console. $ sudo nanoetc-fstab $

Of course, far be it from us to tell you you shouldn't, instead, run a grpahical text editor like kate with root authority. It's just that, not doing that very often, I (and probably others, here) have only a vague recollection of some of the various ways of doing that, and don't know offhand which ones are made easy in a KDE-based distribution.

When I thought: "running graphical text editors as root under KDE", the word that came to mind was "ksudo". Subsequently, you seemed to indicate that it's not present on your system, which turns out to be a Kubuntu setup. (How do you know, by the way? Did you type "locate ksudo" in a terminal?) But my dredging up "ksudo" from memory doesn't necessarily mean it's the right thing to use.

A little additional googling suggests that you would, on Kubuntu, use something called "KControlCenter's administrator mode". You might check for that.

However, more fundamentally, there remains the fact that you are also seeking to install ksudo via a foreign package for some other distribution. As mentioned, this is usually a bad idea, and generally a sign that you're trying to solve the wrong problem. Kubuntu-Ubuntu is a very full-featured desktop distribution. Pretty nearly anything you routinely would want to do already has tools for the task. If you're tempted to import a foreign package, you should suspect that you're missing some key information.

And Kubuntu has a very active user community, with really good online documentation, usually in wiki format specifically so that people like you can participate and help improve that documentation.

Finally, I asked my friend Google the right question, searching on:

kubuntu "as root"

Here's your answer:

-- Cheers, Rick Moen "vi is my shepherd; I shall not font."