Le 16/06/2023 à 20:32, gene heskett a écrit :
greetings, just had to reinstall bullseye. from an 11.2 netinstall.
Sudo -E cannot run synaptic, and cannot run it from menu pulldown after
entering my pw. So what package manager with a gui for selection is
compatible with wayland? Something I can get apt to install from a sudo
-i shell?
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
Hello Gene,
- Nowadays for security reasons, it it discouraged to run an entire GUI
application as root (like it is discouraged to launch X11 as root).
The present norm is more to have a selected elevation of privilges by
a Polkit procedure (managed by the application), so the entire GUI
application does not run as root, only the minimum parts of it that
demand root privileges.
- I just tested in a virtualized Debian 12 (right now I am in a Fedora
session): if your distro and Synaptic are correctly installed, when you
launch Synaptic as an ordinary user, you will have to enter the root
password.
So: forget sudo for lauching Synaptic
- As a GUI package manager, an alternative to Synaptic is Gnome-packagekit
- if you want an even more user-friendly and guided approach, use an app
store instead of a package manager: Gnome-software or Apper
