On 20 Jun 2023 18:21, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson <pipatron@gmail.com> wrote:I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce?Nope. I have synaptic running here with xfce4 on Bullseye. synaptic 0.90.2 amd64 xfce4 4.16 all
Correct me if I'm wrong, but last I tried synaptic manually (on XFCE), I had to use pkexec and NOT sudo.
It doesn't start from a root xterm either. This remark is for Gene, who only uses variations of "sudo". $ which synaptic-pkexec /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec $ /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec"synaptic-pkexec" is what's needed if not using the distro-provided shortcut. Here, the shortcut in XFCE under "System -> Synaptic package manager" effectively launches "synaptic-pkexec".
synaptic-pkexec is a shell script containing: pkexec "/usr/sbin/synaptic" "$@" Another note, if you use pkexec directly, this won't work : $ pkexec synaptic Cannot run program synaptic: No such file or directory But this is OK $ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic