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@toyarchery, I could not make gksu-polkit-git because git.debian.org is down, AFAIK it is down for 1-2 years (the package was last updated in 2015).

Regarding running wxHexEditor as root. You can use folowing policy file (/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.wxHexEditor.policy):

<policyconfig> <action id="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.wxHexEditor"> <message>Authentication is required to run wxHexEditor </message> <defaults> <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any> <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive> <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active> </defaults> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/wxHexEditor</annotate> <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate> </action> </policyconfig>

and execute 'pkexec wxHexEditor'.

However, this seems unnecessary because the whole wxHexEditor is running as root and there is no difference comparing to running with 'sudo'.

Oh ok, I guess gksu-polkit-git can also be used instead

gksu was obsoleted by gnome some time ago (and it had no contribution since 2011 or so). It should be replaced with polkit support (read wiki page "Running applications as root"). The gksu package was removed from arch repos 1-2 years ago.

On the other hand, this package can provide a '.rules' file as a measure to support root priviliges instead of gksu. I will look at weekend.

It should have gksu as an optional dependency, this or gnomesu is used when you try to open a device without permission

@mxfm, you're welcome.

@dario, thanks. PKGBUILD was updated to use wxgtk3. In addition, python was added to makedepends as some components seems to regure it during compilation. When doing building in clean chroot, I had "configure: error: Python was not found".

This PKGBUILD works for me with GTK3:

# Maintainer: Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman at gmail com>

pkgname=wxhexeditor
pkgver=0.24
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A free hex editor / disk editor for Linux, Windows and MacOSX"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
url="http://www.wxhexeditor.org"
license=('GPL2')
depends=('wxgtk3')
source=("https://github.com/EUA/wxHexEditor/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
md5sums=('1b77bddc026e22797fd0e7a82e52cd28')

build() {
    cd "$srcdir/wxHexEditor-$pkgver"
    make WXCONFIG="/usr/bin/wx-config-gtk3"
}

package() {
    cd "$srcdir/wxHexEditor-$pkgver"
    make WXCONFIG="/usr/bin/wx-config-gtk3" DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX="/usr" install
}

Nah

src/HexDialogs.cpp: In member function ‘virtual void FindDialog::EventHandler(wxCommandEvent&)’: src/HexDialogs.cpp:423:41: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘parent’ WX_CLEAR_ARRAY(parent->HighlightArray ) ^ ; parent->HighlightArray.Shrink(); ~~~~~~