When I navigate to System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager it will prompt me for a password. The problem is that it always says I entered the wrong password.
If I run the command "gksudo synaptic" from the console, the password I enter works fine and Synaptic starts with no issues.
I'm guessing I configured something improperly when setting up the OS. Any ideas to get Synaptic to work from the Gnome panel?
I'm running Ubuntu 10.10.
32 Answers
On Ubuntu 10.04, the Synaptic menu entry calls gksu --description /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop /usr/sbin/synaptic Did you enable the root user? If you did, you either want to use the root password or change the menu to gksudo or add --sudo-mode to the current menu entry.
This might help :
- Ensure that gconf-editor is installed
- Press Alt-F2 and run gconf-editor
- Go to apps > gksu and tick the 'sudo-mode' box
- Try Synaptic again.
