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Re: synaptic starting in console not from menu



L.V.Gandhi wrote:

> I have installed sarge r1 starting with base install and then using
> apt-get kdebase, x-window-system-core, synaptic etc. After correcting
> sudoers file for env, I could start synaptic from konsole. But when I
> click synaptic in menu nothing happens. How to get it work?
> Is it some program in kde which can ask for root password for starting
> synaptic not installed by me?

By default it will try to use gksu (which is a "Recommends" of synaptic,
BTW).  Do you have GNOME installed as well?  If not, that would be why it's
missing, probably.  You can use kdesu instead of gksu.



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