Am Sonntag, 20. Februar 2011, um 16:21:42 schrieb Patrick Kelly:
> if you run the command xhost local: you should then beable to run 
> synaptic as root user
> its saying command not found when run as normal user because its located 
> in /usr/sbin (witch only root is alowed to run from)

that's correct.
but locate should find it anyway in that location, as proposed.

werner