On 02/20/2011 12:34 PM, Robert Xu wrote: > That won't work... you should launch it with " /opt/trinity/bin/kdesu > synaptic " in order > to get the root password dialog. Just putting in "synaptic" won't > allow you to do anything with it (it's not being run as root then) > -- # /opt/trinity/bin/kdesu synaptic Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keykdesu: cannot connect to X server :1.0 paulandcilla:/etc/apt# /opt/trinity/bin/kdesudo synaptic Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keykdesudo: cannot connect to X server :1.0 -- Paul Cartwright