Synaptic menu file uses "gksu" => prevents from using synaptic

[MMlosh]

Binary package hint: synaptic

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10 (latest)

It's in file /usr/share/menu/synaptic that is included in this package.
This file uses "gksu" for authentication, so I can't use it (there is no root password by default, so I can't enter it)
This can be solved by replacing "gksu" by "gksudo" or "gksu -S"

This issue blocks usage of synaptic package manager for less experienced users.

[MMlosh (mmlosh)]

Sorry, this is not synaptic bug.

Shell output of "gksu synaptic": (6x the same)
GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking for ORBit, or you have stale NFS locks due to a system crash. See http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/ for information. (Details - 1: Failed to get connection to session: Failed to execute dbus-launch to autolaunch D-Bus session)

=> gksu was probably unable to read it's config file and that it should behave as sudo.

It was cause by missing "dbus-launch", after installing package "dbus-x11" it works now without problems.

Should this be a bug? (package "gksu" does not depend on "dbus") OR I just can't install "gnome-desktop", because I don't have Gnome/KDE?

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

This really isn't a bug in synaptic, reassigning to gksu instead.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue is an environment one and not a gksu bug

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

changing to an answer tracker ticket

[Jonas (jonas-f-henriksen)]

Does this mean that the issue will not be addressed? This issue is also a problem with gparted, wich is set up in the same way as synaptic. I think this can be very frustrating for a new user....

[MMlosh (mmlosh)]

@Jonas. my problem was broken gconf environment after automatic distribution upgrade.

That is the kind of thing that does not happen to the new user, because he isn't likely to distro-upgrade from 8.4 to 8.10 now