On 20 Jun 2023 18:21, Charles Curley wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200
Anders Andersson <pipat...@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
