On 02/20/2011 09:40 AM, Werner Joss wrote:
>> >  from the debian menu, clicking synaptic does nothing.
>>      
> try this:
>
> locate synaptic
>
> if it isn't found anywhere, it has been uninstalled (probably).
> you can get it back with
>    
well, actually, it came back with LOTS, and LOTS of files, including these:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
/usr/sbin/se_synaptic
/usr/sbin/synaptic
/usr/share/synaptic
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/synaptic.desktop

if it wasn't found, it would give back this error:
# /usr/sbin/synaptic
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
(synaptic:6768): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1.0


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Paul Cartwright