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 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?
