Synaptic crashes

[Ben Sutton]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 06:30 -0600, ben miller wrote:
> I apologize if this has been covered recently. I searched for the
> subject but couldn't find it on the web  forum. 
> 
> Any time I try to run the Synaptic Package Manager I receive an error
> which states: Failed to run /usr/bin/synaptic as root. Terminated with 1
> status. Any clues as to what this means or how to resolve it?
> 
How are you attempting to run synaptic?  Try running it with root
privileges by running it with gksudo:

gksudo /usr/sbin/synaptic