Hi. Using 5.0, fully updated. I've used terminal to install synaptic. When I try to run synaptic from the menus, I get an error -- unable to run synaptic-pkexec. Anyone know what's happening and how I can fix it? thanks.

And what happens when you run from the terminal?

Hello there

Just installed synaptic to reproduce your issue, but everything works fine here.

Error messages, then synaptic launches. I can't seem to be able to attach a screenshot. Sigh I think I'll wait until 5.0 final is released and some of the problems are resolved. Thanks.

Could you copy and paste the errors you get? Please enclose it in [code][ /code ] tags. To attach an image and use code tags, click on Go Advanced under the quick reply text ctrl.

Hope this helps.

Can't reproduce this issue here. It likely won't be fixed if you or someone else who can produce it can't help debug it. The existing disc image is basically ready for release outside of the website app center needing some links updated for it.

EDIT: If you'd like to help debug the issue you can run this command in terminal and share the output when it doesn't work:

If you prefer to take a screenshot rather than copy + paste the output, the default Bodhi image viewer gives you an option to upload an image when you right click on it.

Thanks. Under some time pressure, I had to install another Linux distro. Time lines I must meet. I hope to return to Bodhi soon.

I'm guessing it may have do something with gksu being depricated in ubuntu 18.04. Policykit is now handling the task. I had the same problem. Synaptic would only run from terminal with I had the same problem with users and groups (users-admin). But it won't run with sudo command at all by design. For some reason policy kit authentication agent wouldn't run at start up even when I added it to startup applications. Nor would the policy kit. For reasons, I have not determined, the only way I could get it to work was to make sure the following packages where installed...

policy-kit-1-gnome policykit-desktop-privileges policykit-1 lxpolkit polkit-kde-agent-1

Then make sure the policy kit authentication agent and lxpolkit are both running at start up.

Have no clue why I needed the kde polkit agent. But it works for me.

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Hi, guys,

I confirm that Synaptic stopped working when is started from the GUI menu. This occurs on my current Bodhi 4.5.5 system.

When Synaptic is started from the command line, it works.

Deleting Synaptic and re-installing it again does not solve the problem.

Thank you,

BM

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synaptic-pkexec on my Debian system is just a tiny shell script, so you can write one yourself and put it in /usr/bin.

#!/bin/sh
pkexec "/usr/sbin/synaptic" "$@"

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Thanks.

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Would that work for the file manager (pcmanfm)? I'll give it a go,when I get a second.

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Nope says it can't open display.

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Big thank you to hazel for the script to solve the problem.

Still, there is a question - why Synaptic worked with no problem for months and then all of the sudden it stopped working? I am referring to Bodhi 4.5.5.

Thank you,

BM

I wonder if something changed in your startup. pkexec still needs the policymanager, authentication agent and a policy kit to run. It should work if the authentication agent and a polkit such as lxpolkit are running when you start synaptic.