Synaptic Gui ver on Suse 10.0 - error message : "command synaptic not found"

suse2166 · 03-26-2006, 02:22 PM

Hi - To whom it may concern

I install synaptic-1.57-0.suse093.rb0.i586.rpm on suse 10.0 machine and when I click on the icon of the application it prompt me to enter my "Run as Root - KDE su password" ... after I enter KDE su password, I get "Command sypnatic not found" ... I click ok and application disappear... thanks

jonaskoelker · 03-26-2006, 03:36 PM

it's probably just not in your path.

use 'find / -iname synaptic | less' to find the executable, then give the full path instead of just 'synaptic' to your KDE-su program.

suse2166 · 03-28-2006, 05:55 PM

Hi Jonas

Help ...step by step ... how do I change the path of synaptic on my KDE-Su program

suse2166 · 03-28-2006, 05:58 PM

I type this at the command line under su and I'm getting this message

linux:/home/suse # find / -iname synaptic
/opt/gnome/share/omf/synaptic
/opt/gnome/share/gnome/help/synaptic
/opt/gnome/share/synaptic
/usr/sbin/synaptic
/usr/share/doc/packages/synaptic
find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc/10629: this may be a bug in your filesystem driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have been searched.
find: /media/floppy: No medium found

jonaskoelker · 04-03-2006, 03:38 AM

Type '/usr/sbin/synaptic' instead of 'synaptic' (no quotes).

suse2166 · 04-03-2006, 04:33 PM

Hey Jonas
I type at the root linux:/home/suse # find / -iname /usr/sbin/synaptic
find: warning: Unix filenames usually don't contain slashes (though pathnames do). That means that '-iname /usr/sbin/synaptic' will probably evaluate to false all the time on this system. You might find the '-wholename' test more useful, or perhaps '-samefile'. Alternatively, if you are using GNU grep, you could use 'find ... -print0 | grep -FzZ /usr/sbin/synaptic'.
find: /media/floppy: No medium found

I'm getting this error message.

jonaskoelker · 04-04-2006, 01:58 AM

Quote:

Type '/usr/sbin/synaptic' instead of 'synaptic' (no quotes).

That is, in the kdesu program, not on the command line.