Faulty Software Updater on 16.04

[Liam Proven]

On 10 October 2017 at 16:19, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

My bad. Sorry.

But it's not Synaptic. No apps which require root permissions
currently run under Wayland. This is not a bug, it is by design.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/50314

But there are workarounds:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/961967/why-dont-gksu-gksudo-work-with-wayland

And it's still under development.

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