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pkexec can be obtained by the following:

 sudo apt install policykit-1 

Edit the bottom of this file to where it looks likes this: sudo nano /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy

yours should look like this:

 <action id="org.freedesktop.policykit.lockdown"> <description>Configure lock down for an action</description> <message>Authentication is required to configure lock down policy</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/pklalockdown</annotate> </action> 

After that try:

 pkexec gedit 

you then can try and add an alias to ~/.bash_aliases:

 echo 'alias gedit="pkexec gedit"' >> ~/.bash_aliases