Hello Greg

On Wednesday 04 March 2015 00:55:39 Greg Madden wrote:
> On Saturday 28 February 2015 12:54:56 am Baron wrote:

> > I've just (2 weeks ago) done a complete wipe and install Jessie
> > with R14 on my machine.  Its different from PCLinuxOS in many
> > ways and seems to have some anoying bugs.  Not least Synaptic
> > doesn't work ! The cursor changes and then it dies quietly.  Apt
> > is fine as I would expect.  Silly things, but no show stopper :-)
>
> re synaptic, on my new Jessie/R14 install  the 'synaptic'
> executable is in '/usr/sbin' which is not in my user path.
>
> In  kmenu edit The icon to start synaptic in the start menu uses
> 'synaptic' as the command.. path issue again...changing it to
> '/usr/sbin/synaptic' will work,. I set the 'run as a different
> user' to root.  You will be ask for admins password if  you have
> tdeudo setup.

I did as you said and apart from deleting "-pkexec" the last word 
after "synaptic", it works exactly as expected.
Many thanks for your help, its much apreciated.

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Best Regards:
            Baron