I think, this topic does not belong to the devel-list, so I drop this to the user-list.
On 2016-11-18 03:45, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings arm experts; > > Raspian has a showstopper in its package management dept. > > 1. In spite of being able to do about 99% of the stuff with sudo, over an > ssh -Y login, there is one glaring omission. There is no reason even > when X is not running, why I shouldn't be able to run synaptic-pkexec > with it exporting the gui window to what ever machine I am logged into > it from. > > Except its asking for the root pw, and root doesn't have one. > > Sudo bash gets me root, but then root can't open the display, so I am > stuck with the text based apt. > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a fix? Having a gui to manage packages > makes it a heck of a lot easier to do. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Hi Gene, 'm back again from illness. Hack in your remote console: sudo apt-get install gksu gksudo enter in the "Run:" field synaptic click "OK"..... :) Have fun. Cheers Matsche. -- "In der Wissenschaft siegt nie eine neue Theorie, nur ihre Gegner sterben nach und nach" Max Planck ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users