Synaptic Package Manager dies right after install in Ubuntu 17.10

[John Bond]

Using the Ubuntu Software application, I attempted to install Synaptic. Once the install completed, i clicked the "launch" button. After about a minute, I was told the application failed to launch. So I attempted to run "sudo synaptic &" in a terminal. That also died, and the processes had to be killed.

I am working with a fresh install of Ubuntu 17.10.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: synaptic 0.84.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Tue Oct 31 22:54:35 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-30 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Release amd64 (20171018)
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)

[dino99 (9d9)]

That is a wayland expected limitation: either use first the xhost script, or login with x11