On 6/20/23 11:29, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
Seems to be valid Paul, I get exactly the same error message already posted a couple times, the requester goes away and it does not run.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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