How do I get around administrator priviliges are required for this task when installing real vnc?

When I try to install real VNC and enter in the registration code I get administrator privileges are required for this task. How do I get around this? I am the only user on the computer and already tried giving myself all the permissions in Users and Groups. Please Help

1 Answer

You should never use normal sudo to start graphical applications as Root. You should use gksudo to run such programs. So after you download the program to your hard drive in your case you would

Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the commands below.

sudo dpkg -i VNC-Viewer-5.0.0-Linux-x64.deb

Now to be able to run the application with administrator privileges after its installed you would type

gksudo vncviewer

To run VNC Viewer, and to run VNC Server with administrator privileges you would type

gksudo vncserver-x11

Source: MozillaZine (which cites RootSudo)