Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)

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Subject: Re: Start Synaptic with user password (NOT root password)
From: Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca>
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 20:34:31 -0400
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On 22/10/13 08:23 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 16:09 -0700, anx_dev wrote:

Synaptic cannot be started with a user with sudo privileges.


Does it work if you use gksudo?



  I have also had this problem for a while - I thought it was related to
Mate which I run.
gksudo will run it here...but pkexec will not.

Cheers

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