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Re: [LUG] Using Synaptic

 

OK 
I have tried to sudo synaptic but that tells me that the user I am trying to run it 
at as is not in the sudo list.
Is this the same thing ?

Ray
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Subject:        Re: [LUG] Using Synaptic
Author: Grant Sewell <dcglug@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:           16th September 2005 9:56:12 am

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Hi Ray,

The issue isn't that Synaptic was installed via apt.  The issue is that Synaptic is 
an X application that needs to be run as root, and your setup will only allow 1 user 
to run X applications - since root is not *that* user, root is not allowed to start 
X applications.

You could try using gksu or kdesu to launch Synaptic:

user:~ gksu synaptic
-- OR --
user:~ kdesu synaptic

Grant.

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