Synaptic from the menu ...

Michael Vogt michael.vogt at canonical.com
Tue Nov 23 12:53:48 UTC 2004


On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 08:10:47PM +0000, Jon Dixon wrote:
> Encountered this myself last night.
> 
> You can fix it easily, but a reboot does put it back to non-functional.
> 
> To save time (until they hopefully fix it) open a terminal and just do
> 'sudo synaptic' and put in your password. Has worked fine for me.

Thanks for pointing this out. It was a mistake and is fixed with
the upload of synaptic-0.55+cvs20041119-1ubuntu3.

bye,
 Michael
 
> On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 17:55 +0100, OIM wrote:
> > I upgrade today my Hoary box. The synaptic software menu entry have
> > changed and is no more called thru gksudo but gksu ... On my box
> > configured with an inactive root account (the ubuntu default), this
> > cannot be achieved ... Is it the beginning of a new ubuntu policy or is
> > it a mistake while packaging Synaptic ?
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> Jon Dixon <jon at dixon-online.co.uk>
> 
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