Running Synaptic Package Manager as superuser via terminal results in the following error on Ubuntu Artful (17.10) Daily Build

[Kacey]

Running synaptic as superuser on Ubuntu Artful Daily Build results in an error specifying the following:

kacey@kacey-VirtualBox:~$ sudo synaptic
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(synaptic:9311): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: synaptic 0.84.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sun Jul 23 15:05:28 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-23 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170720)
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Stephen Allen (stephen-d-allen)]

I'm not running Wayland. In GDM I checked, it isn't selected. So if it is
running Wayland, there is a bug in GDM. I had tried it on Wayland, but then
went back to using XWindows.

On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 5:51 PM Julian Alarcon <email address hidden> wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1551951 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551951
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1551951
> synaptic does not run over gnome wayland session
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1705955
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> Title:
> Running Synaptic Package Manager as superuser via terminal results in
> the following error on Ubuntu Artful (17.10) Daily Build
>
> Status in synaptic package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Running synaptic as superuser on Ubuntu Artful Daily Build results in
> an error specifying the following:
>
> kacey@kacey-VirtualBox:~$ sudo synaptic
> No protocol specified
> Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
>
> (synaptic:9311): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
> Package: synaptic 0.84.2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-10.15-generic 4.11.8
> Uname: Linux 4.11.0-10-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu4
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: GNOME
> Date: Sun Jul 23 15:05:28 2017
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-07-23 (0 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64
> (20170720)
> ProcEnviron:
> TERM=xterm-256color
> PATH=(custom, no user)
> XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: synaptic
> UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
>
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