>> Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. >> Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without >> root permission > > Thank you. That's the error I saw
Correction: the above is not an error message. It's a guess of the likely cause of the error message emitted earlier. > Synaptic run as a regular user is useless, except to search > for things. Not if you start it properly, so it can request admin credentials when needed. Stefan