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