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update-manager package

  1. Bug #93279
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 93279

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Stuart Bishop (stub) wrote : Re: Synaptic missing from main menu

No ~/.local/share/applications/synaptic.desktop.

I've found System->Preferences->Main Menu. It looks like synaptic and a number of other tools are disabled. If I click on them to reenable them, the checkbox goes on briefly before being switched off again, with no other feedback to me.

It looks like every entry in this state is one that is launched using gksu - all the entries that are launchpad without gksu can be enabled and disabled normally. The command like on synaptic for example is:
    gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic

I suspect that this is an upgrade issue, perhaps related to the edgy updates where many of these control panels where not being launched as root?