Gene, I cannot help you with your problem, but I can get you a root password. This may help you in the short term, until you can get the rest figured out.
Run: "sudo passwd root" and give root a password. BTW, I had synaptic leave my system in a unusable state, so I always use apt-get to install, or upgrade packages. On 11/19/2016 07:51 PM, W. Martinjak wrote: > I think, this topic does not belong to the devel-list, so I drop this to the > user-list. > > On 2016-11-18 03:45, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Greetings arm experts; >> >> Raspian has a showstopper in its package management dept. >> >> 1. In spite of being able to do about 99% of the stuff with sudo, over an >> ssh -Y login, there is one glaring omission. There is no reason even >> when X is not running, why I shouldn't be able to run synaptic-pkexec >> with it exporting the gui window to what ever machine I am logged into >> it from. >> >> Except its asking for the root pw, and root doesn't have one. >> >> Sudo bash gets me root, but then root can't open the display, so I am >> stuck with the text based apt. >> >> Does anyone have a suggestion for a fix? Having a gui to manage packages >> makes it a heck of a lot easier to do. >> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett > Hi Gene, > > 'm back again from illness. > > Hack in your remote console: > > sudo apt-get install gksu > gksudo > > enter in the "Run:" field > > synaptic > > click "OK"..... > > :) > > Have fun. > > Cheers Matsche. > -- MC Cason Eagle3D - Created by Matthias Weißer github.com/mcason/Eagle3D ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
