[xubuntu-users] Synaptic doesn't work on a new 14.04 installation

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:15:55 +0100
Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 01:43:03PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:

> > What happens if you do the following:
> > 
> > 1) Run an xterm (or aterm or rxvt if you don't have xterm)
> > 
> > 2) On the xterm, run su -c
> > 
> I don't think that's right, "su -c" just means run a command so it
> returns an error.

Whoops! Please amend the preceding to:

2) On the xterm, run su -
 
> > 3) On the su root xterm, run synaptic

SteveT

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