Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Tom H]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 5:36 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 October 2017 at 14:36, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't use synaptic but I'm curious about this. Is synaptic being
>> called deprecated because it's not compatible with wayland?
>
> No. Works fine.

Two people called it deprecated in this thread.

Googled this morning:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1551951

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818366

Unless you've set up synaptic with polkit, you must be using X.