gksu-polkit software package provides command line utility to run programs as root, you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install gksu-polkit
gksu-polkit is installed in your system.
Make ensure the gksu-polkit package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep gksu-polkit *
You will get with gksu-polkit package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | gksu-polkit |
| Version | 0.0.2-2.1ubuntu1 |
| Description | command line utility to run programs as root |
| Sub Section | Admin |