Re: package managers problem
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200
Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't have synaptic in the path, but the icon is setup to start a
> program that *is* in my path: synaptic-pkexec
>
> Maybe you can try that, I think that's responsible for asking about
> your password.
/usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec is a shell script which runs
/usr/sbin/synaptic as root, using the pkexec program. I don't know
anything about pkexec, but it looks like it's a substitute for sudo in
cases like this.
Paul
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