On Wednesday 04 March 2015 07:30:01 am Baron wrote:
> 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.

My install did not have '-pkexec', which , I did not know this until now, is 
supposed to execute a command as another user.   I havernever used that 
command.

-- 
Peace,

Greg