should depend on gksu by default

Bug #28472 reported by Martin Meredith
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Bug Description

synaptic uses gksu to automatically get the required permissions to run as root - however, in kubuntu - this is not installed by default when installing synaptic - which makes the menu entry for synaptic useless - and the command has to be run manually by running kdesu synaptic

Either synaptic should be patched to check for gksu/kdesu and use whichever is installed - or it should be depend on gksu by default!

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Daniel Velkov (norcobg) wrote :

If you try to remove a lock on some package and you aren't su, synaptic crashes with this message:
"error opening tmpfile: /var/lib/synaptic/.tmp_preferences
Segmentation fault"

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