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@mozo

Unless you can help me find out why that worked with the previous version of the package, and not with this one, I am inclined to believe this is because of changes to dbus itself rather than the packaging. I do not use dolphin, but I do use this package for things like launching dconf-editor as root with sudo, which works--though it should be noted that using sudo with dbus applications is generally recommended against.

If you are using KDE, the most often recommended method I see at first glance (google search of "sudo dolphin dbus" returns mostly results from ~2016, maybe when the [core] package dropped --enable-x11-autolaunch) is

kdesu dbus-launch dolphin

Several posts recommend installing the dbus-x11 package without saying why it worked.

Edit: have a look at the Archwiki page about running GUI applications as root. Much to my surprise the GVFS method worked with my filebrowser (pantheon-files). You might try

dolphin admin:///

Warning: installing dbus-x11 (1.12.20-1) breaks dependency 'libdbus-1.so=3-64' required by avahi Add avahi to remove Warning: installing dbus-x11 (1.12.20-1) breaks dependency 'libdbus-1.so=3-64' required by fluidsynth Add fluidsynth to remove Warning: installing dbus-x11 (1.12.20-1) breaks dependency 'libdbus-1.so=3-64' required by pipewire Add pipewire to remove Warning: cmake optionally requires qt5-base: cmake-gui Warning: colord optionally requires colord-sane: SANE support Warning: doxygen optionally requires graphviz: for caller/callee graph generation Warning: doxygen optionally requires qt5-base: for doxywizard Warning: git optionally requires org.freedesktop.secrets: keyring credential helper Warning: graphicsmagick optionally requires ghostscript: pdf, ps modules Warning: grilo optionally requires grilo-plugins: Plugins for grilo Warning: grilo optionally requires gtk3: Test UI Warning: gssdp optionally requires gtk3: gssdp-device-sniffer Warning: imagemagick optionally requires ghostscript: PS/PDF support Warning: jre-openjdk optionally requires gtk2: for the Gtk+ 2 look and feel - desktop usage Warning: jre-openjdk optionally requires gtk3: for the Gtk+ 3 look and feel - desktop usage Warning: jre11-openjdk optionally requires gtk2: for the Gtk+ 2 look and feel - desktop usage Warning: jre11-openjdk optionally requires gtk3: for the Gtk+ 3 look and feel - desktop usage Warning: libde265 optionally requires qt5-base: for sherlock265 Warning: libinput optionally requires gtk3: libinput debug-gui Warning: libsecret optionally requires org.freedesktop.secrets: secret storage backend Warning: libvirt optionally requires qemu: QEMU/KVM support Warning: lightdm optionally requires lightdm-gtk-greeter: GTK greeter Warning: mjpegtools optionally requires gtk2: glav GUI Warning: neofetch optionally requires nitrogen: Wallpaper Display Warning: nvidia-390xx-utils optionally requires nvidia-390xx-settings: configuration tool Warning: openal optionally requires qt5-base: alsoft-config GUI Configurator Warning: openal optionally requires fluidsynth: MIDI rendering Warning: pinentry optionally requires gtk2: gtk2 backend Warning: pinentry optionally requires qt5-base: qt backend Warning: pinentry optionally requires gcr: gnome3 backend Warning: python-matplotlib optionally requires python-pyqt5: Qt5{Agg,Cairo} backends Warning: python-matplotlib optionally requires ghostscript: usetex dependencies Warning: python-scapy optionally requires graphviz: conversations() method support Warning: sdl2_mixer optionally requires fluidsynth: MIDI software synth, replaces built-in timidity Warning: sdl_mixer optionally requires fluidsynth: MIDI software synth, replaces built-in timidity Warning: snapd optionally requires xdg-desktop-portal: desktop integration Warning: stoken optionally requires gtk3: required for stoken-gui Warning: texlive-core optionally requires ghostscript: for epstopdf, epspdf and other ConTeXt tools Warning: v4l-utils optionally requires qt5-base: for qv4l2 Warning: xdg-utils optionally requires exo: for Xfce support in xdg-open Warning: xine-lib optionally requires smbclient: for using the samba plugin Warning: zbar optionally requires gtk3: for zbar-gtk Warning: zbar optionally requires qt5-x11extras: for zbar-qt

you just made my day thanks for this!!!

I no longer need this package myself, so quitting while I'm ahead.

It will periodically need a $pkgver bump or so to keep up with dbus in [core].

Hold your horses people. I'll update the package soon.

@quequotion: Please add 'libdbus-1.so' in 'provides' section. This required for avahi starting from 0.8+6+g751be80-1.

Yes it works with "dolphin admin:///" and with "kdesu dbus-launch dolphin" but used to "sudo dolphin" which doesn't work anymore. It's not a big deal though :)

Unfortunately I don't have the knowledge to help you in this task.

@mozo

Unless you can help me find out why that worked with the previous version of the package, and not with this one, I am inclined to believe this is because of changes to dbus itself rather than the packaging. I do not use dolphin, but I do use this package for things like launching dconf-editor as root with sudo, which works--though it should be noted that using sudo with dbus applications is generally recommended against.

If you are using KDE, the most often recommended method I see at first glance (google search of "sudo dolphin dbus" returns mostly results from ~2016, maybe when the [core] package dropped --enable-x11-autolaunch) is

kdesu dbus-launch dolphin

Several posts recommend installing the dbus-x11 package without saying why it worked.

Edit: have a look at the Archwiki page about running GUI applications as root. Much to my surprise the GVFS method worked with my filebrowser (pantheon-files). You might try

dolphin admin:///

Hmm, it installs but with the new version I can't open dolphin with: sudo dolphin

This is the single reason I installed dbus-x11.

temporarily downgrade autoconf-archive did it here too. Thanks!

Yes temporarily downgrade autoconf-archive to 2018.03.13-2 did the trick. Thank you :)

However I don't know how this problem can be resolved.