Hardy Alpha-4 synaptic error

[scott]

Try opening a terminal and typing 'gksu synaptic' or 'gksu update-manager'.

Regards,
Scott

Richard Mancusi wrote:
> After a clean install (i386 desktop) I receive an error when
> attempting either:
>
> 1. System/Administration/Update Manager
> 2. System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager
>
> An error occured
> The following details are provided:
> E:ERROR: could not create configuration directory
> /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory)
>
> I do have a directory /root/.synaptic
> and obviously there is no such thing as /home/root
> where it appears to be looking.
>
> -rich
>
>   


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