On 6/20/23 10:54, Anders Andersson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 9:36 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
On 6/20/23 00:32, Anders Andersson wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:38 AM gene heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
I'm with you Paul, if Anders know how to do it, please PUBLISH the how.
For a while on bullseye, a "sudo -E synaptic" worked, then even that
died mid-bullseye, somebody plugged a perceived hole and didn't bother
to mention it to the many thousands of users.
There's really nothing to publish. I started synaptic from my desktop
environment using the default icon installed by the debian package. No
weird "sudo" incantations. It asks my password and then starts up.
from an xfce4 terminal shell, it bitches about wayland and exits, from
the pulldown menu's it asks for a passwd with a much bigger passwd
requester and when I enter my sudo pw it silently goes away. It does not
run here,
I don't have synaptic in the path, but the icon is setup to start a
program that *is* in my path: synaptic-pkexec
ene@coyote:~/Pictures$ /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect:
Connection refused
Failed to initialize GTK.
Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission.
Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without
root permission
And yes, that is the big pw requester that pops up.
Maybe you can try that, I think that's responsible for asking about
your password.
And when I ask why, everyone takes me to task for trying to run the only
package manager that works and has decent search function. What desktop
are you running? I'm xfce4 here.
I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce?
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Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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