Re: Oddity noticed installing caja-gksu, Bug?

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 01/30/2017 11:49 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Sun 29 Jan 2017 at 08:58:17 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > I using Debian 8.6.0 [with *NO* updates] from set of purchased DVDs.
> > I use the Mate desktop.
> >
> > When I installed caja-gksu, it did not apparently have any effect
> > until after a reboot. Is this expected?
>
> Installation should affect new instances of caja. It won't affect any
> caja instances already running at the time you installed caja-gksu.
> Next time you install Debian, you could test examples of each type
> of instance, before and after, to establish the presence of any bug.

Did a clean install then did
  apt-get install caja-gksu
in MATE Terminal as first thing.
A restart was required for it to take effect.


> > I found no indication either way in a web search.
>
> I don't think one would expect to, unless you searched for "ldconfig".
> Caja is just one program among thousands that would be expected to
> behave in the same way. Try:
>
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html
>
> Cheers,
> David.