[Synaptic-devel] Running synaptic as root or sudo from CLI:

[Hedley Finger]

Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS Bionic Beaver

I can no longer run synaptic from the CLI with either the GNOME or Wayland desktop manager. This is the error I get:

~$ sudo synaptic

No protocol specified

Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused

(synaptic:17889): Gtk-WARNING **: 19:48:19.457: cannot open display: :0

I cannot run synaptic from CLI as root even with

~$ xhost +si:localuser:root

Apparently there is a permanent fix by modifying synaptic <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1712089>:

"

If I'm not wrong, this is a design decision of wayland.

synaptic should really look at adding polkit support to gain the root  

privileges instead of running the full ui as root

"

I am not a programmer and am not comfortable with the CLI, so I have no idea what polkit is.

Regards,

Hedley

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