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James Westby (james-w) wrote : Re: E: ERROR: could not create configuration directory /home/root/.synaptic - mkdir (2 No such file or directory)

Hi Corrine,

Can you confirm that you were launching synaptic from
the menu please?

My first guess is this is something to do with sudo environment
changes.

Thanks,

James