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The raw portfile for gksu 1.3.7 is located here:
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# $Id: Portfile 30259 2007-10-23 02:31:56Z jmpp macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: gksu
Version: 1.3.7
Platform: darwin
Category: x11 sysutils
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Graphical frontend to su and sudo
Long Description: Gtk+ frontend to su and sudo. It supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to menu items or other graphical programs that need to ask a user's password to run another program as another user.

Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/
master_sites http://people.debian.org/~kov/gksu/old_stuff/gksu/
checksums md5 15031e06ebb482f8aa1515499212eeaf

depends_lib port:gtk2 port:gnome-keyring port:gconf port:libgksu12 port:libgksuui10
depends_build port:pkgconfig

patchfiles patch-gksu.diff

configure.args --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --disable-gtk-doc

Variant: docs {
depends_build-append port:gtk-doc
configure.args-delete --disable-gtk-doc
configure.args-append --enable-gtk-doc
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/gksu
%  sudo port install gksu  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching gksu
--->  Verifying checksum for gksu
--->  Extracting gksu
--->  Configuring gksu
--->  Building gksu with target all

--->  Staging gksu into destroot

--->  Installing gksu

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using gksu with these commands:

%  man gksu
%  apropos gksu
%  which gksu
%  locate gksu

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