There used to be a service for Administrative Actions in dolphin that is no longer there in 24.10 so i cannot open root owned files for editing.
i’ve installed kio-admin as well as libkf6kio-dev just in case it was a qt6 thing, but no joy.
what am i missing?
is there another package i should install?
Your Kio-admin version is 23.08, it is not compatible with dolphin 24.08, it might even be Qt5 based.
That’s a packaging/distro issue.
edit you have dolphin 24.08
so it is a qt6 thing…
probably not going to get that before 26.04 unless it shows up in backports.
You can report the issue to kubuntu bug tracker, they can update the package easily, it just needs some recompiling IIRC.
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=494864
done…
meh, not done… marked as RESOLVED and told to take it up with kubuntu
but when i look up how file a bug report in kubuntu it directs me back to bugs.kde.org
there is verbiage about creating a lunchpad acct, which i’ve done, but exploring that website turns up no way i can find to report a bug or issue.
trying regain access to my kubutuforums.net acct so i can ask there, but the password reset thing is broken for some reason.
just feels like the universe doesn’t want to help with this, what with the runaround, confusing websites, and bad automation i’m encountering.
glad to do my part, but this just seems burdensome.
Try open a terminal and run ubuntu-bug kio-admin – this should open a tab in your browser where you can file a new bug in Launchpad against the kio-admin package.
(Yep, there is no button on Launchpad itself to create new bug reports – running ubuntu-bug PACKAGENAME is the intended way for that purpose since it includes various additional debugging information automatically.)
ok, thanks that helps… actually easier that i expected once you know the “one weird trick”
making a note of it for future reference.
it does concern me tho that the bug report is against ubuntu and not kubuntu, so i don’t know how if ubuntu proper uses qt6 yet and thus would not consider it a bug.
AFAIK no need to worry about that terminology (Ubuntu vs. Kubuntu; I’m not sure if it is actually possible to report a bug explicitly against Kubuntu beside metapackages like kubuntu-desktop etc.)
