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We have been cautioned not to use sudo nautilus to open Nautilus as root.

Have not been able to download gksu for 19.04.

Have also tried to install nautilus-admin to 19.04 without success.

Is it still possible to right click a file in Nautilus and select "open as administrator" in 19.04?

What to do?

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You may use the GVfs admin backend by adding admin:// to the beginning of the full path to your preferred directory.

For example launch Nautilus and press Ctrl+L to enable the address-bar, and then enter for example admin:/// to open the / directory or admin:///usr/ to open the /usr/ directory.

Alternatively, launch Terminal and run 

nautilus admin:///

to open the / directory or 

nautilus admin:///usr/

to open the /usr/ directory etc.

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