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leolewis / openvisualtraceroute

Open source cross-platform (Windows/Linux/Mac) Java Visual Traceroute, packet sniffer and Whois.
http://visualtraceroute.net/
GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0
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Ubuntu GKSU no longer supported #2

Closed ZaranTheWise closed 2 years ago

ZaranTheWise commented 6 years ago

open visual trace route requires the gksu dependency in Ubuntu. GKSU is no longer supported or available. Is there a work around/fix?

SiqingYu commented 5 years ago

+1 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS no gksu package.

pbhj commented 5 years ago

+1 I think you can fix it with equivs to spoof the gksu package being installed and then use some scripting of pkexec to mimic gksu ... but it would be nice to update the app so that wasn't necessary.

FWIW I used equivs packages to make a fake gksu that I installed with dpkg -i; then ovtr installed without complaints. However, running /usr/share/OpenVisualTraceRoute/ovtr.sh (or the same with sudo) appears to work but never manages to do any route tracing (output pasted to https://pastebin.com/ALUKw4Mq). I can do traceroute with mtr or tracert as an ordinary user, I guess I'd probably prefer just to be able to use either of those and then parse the output to make a map (I should check out maxmind and GMaps/OSM ...).

I tried using pkexec but couldn't muster a working incantation (I tried xhost +local:) and just get xhost: unable to open display "".

leolewis commented 2 years ago

Version 2.0.0 no longer requires root/sudo to execute a traceroute.