Re: package managers problem

2023-06-27 Thread gene heskett
On 6/27/23 14:05, David Wright wrote: On Thu 22 Jun 2023 at 04:30:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: On 6/21/23 18:45, David Wright wrote: On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 16:14:07 (-0400), gene heskett wrote some words. In reply: Eh? Can I remind you that the Escape key is not a shift key; you just have

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 21:25:15 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:53:06PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 12:31:20 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > > feature rich editors like vim and emacs can easily write to files > > > through sudo or sftp, thus enabling

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-27 Thread David Wright
On Thu 22 Jun 2023 at 04:30:47 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/21/23 18:45, David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 16:14:07 (-0400), gene heskett wrote some words. > > In reply: > > > > Eh? Can I remind you that the Escape key is not a shift key; > > you just have to press the Escape

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-26 Thread Joe
On Sat, 17 Jun 2023 11:57:57 +0100 Joe wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:41:08 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2023 at 06:35:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > 0 upgraded, 164 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > > > Need to get 44.5 MB of archives. > > >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-22 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/23 18:45, David Wright wrote: On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 16:14:07 (-0400), gene heskett wrote some words. In reply: Eh? Can I remind you that the Escape key is not a shift key; you just have to press the Escape key and /then/ the Zero key. Cheers, David. . Here, the esc key must be held

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-22 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/23 18:45, David Wright wrote: On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 16:14:07 (-0400), gene heskett wrote some words. In reply: Eh? Can I remind you that the Escape key is not a shift key; you just have to press the Escape key and /then/ the Zero key. Cheers, David. That could have been the sequence,

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Felix Miata
Andy Smith composed on 2023-06-21 21:07 (UTC): > You were using XFCE4 on Wayland under bullseye right? 2 for 3. https://www.linux.org/threads/xfce-wayland.43792/ says it could not have been on Wayland. The "wayland" that kept getting stuffed in his face was an entirely misleading error message

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/23 17:08, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:50:31PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 6/20/23 18:23, Andy Smith wrote: I think it's already been demonstrated in this thread that the desktop launcher for Synaptic calls policykit to start it, so if as you claim you do a

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 16:14:07 (-0400), gene heskett wrote some words. In reply: Eh? Can I remind you that the Escape key is not a shift key; you just have to press the Escape key and /then/ the Zero key. Cheers, David.

Desktop environments stealing app key shortcuts (Was Re: package managers problem)

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:14:07PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/21/23 13:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 21 June 2023 08:54:46 am Maurice Heskett wrote: > > > it pisses me off that F10 has been stolen by the window > > > managers to bring up a useless menu, making me

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi David, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:53:06PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 12:31:20 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > feature rich editors like vim and emacs can easily write to files > > through sudo or sftp, thus enabling seamless editing of files as > > different users and

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:50:31PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 18:23, Andy Smith wrote: > > I think it's already been demonstrated in this thread that the > > desktop launcher for Synaptic calls policykit to start it, so if as > > you claim you do a standard Debian install and

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 01:53:28PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Oh, and synaptic asks for a pw, I give it mine, and it runs just fine. Great, so hopefully you are now prepared to accept that all the things about Synaptic not working under Wayland were a huge blind alley. We still don't

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/23 13:51, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: On Wednesday 21 June 2023 08:54:46 am Maurice Heskett wrote: mc for a file manager since my original install from floppies of redhat 5.0 in the late '90's. I am well aware of what it CAN do. There is no gui file manager that can touch it for

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 21:25, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:56:36 -0400 gene heskett wrote: Like firefox, its big and complex, but unlike gedit has never trashed a file for me, gedit has ruined so many I finally banned it from my machines, all of them. Vim for the win! (kidding)

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 18:23, Andy Smith wrote: Hello Gene, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 06:01:00PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Alright then the question is, is policykit the solution, or do we install it, then spend two weeks and wreck 7 installs configuring it to work? In other words, get to the specifics or

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 18:13, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Gene, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:44:10PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. […] Andy, if you aren't behind dd-wrt for your home network, don't pretend to tell me what I can't do I think your

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/21/23 11:56, David Wright wrote: On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 08:29:55 (-0400), Maurice Heskett wrote: I have a gent on the Sheldon list at groups.io who would like to see how I solved a broke into pieces compound on my bigger lathe, linuxcnc can do all that and then some w/o a compound, so mine

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread didier gaumet
Le 21/06/2023 à 19:53, gene heskett a écrit : welp, I just did a net install of at least half of bookworm, [...] Oh, and synaptic asks for a pw, I give it mine, and it runs just fine. Cheers, Gene Heskett. Glad to hear it, Gene :-)

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 18:53, Stefan Monnier wrote: Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without root permission Thank you. That's the error I saw Correction: the above is not an error message. It's a guess of the

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Wednesday 21 June 2023 08:54:46 am Maurice Heskett wrote: > mc for a file manager since my original > install from floppies of redhat 5.0 in the late '90's. I am well aware > of what it CAN do. There is no gui file manager that can touch it for > utility, and it pisses me off that F10 has

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2023-06-21 08:54 (UTC-0400): > I KNOW what mc can do, do you? Hopefully you are aware of how simple it can be to find and fix broken permissions in a corrupted homedir using https://paste.opensuse.org/bf6c16e7e2e6 (full window width pane). -- Evolution as taught in

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 21:49:54 (+0700), Max Nikulin wrote: > The ~/.Xauthority file contains *secrets*, see Xsecurity(7), so I > would not encourage people to post its content. It's a cookie. You can just remove the file and let startx recreate it (or whatever DEs require as the equivalent).

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 08:29:55 (-0400), Maurice Heskett wrote: > I have a gent on the Sheldon list at groups.io who would like to see > how I solved a broke into pieces compound on my bigger lathe, linuxcnc > can do all that and then some w/o a compound, so mine is now a block > of a cast iron,

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread David Wright
On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 12:31:20 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 > > gene heskett wrote: > > > My fav editor, geany is also > > > dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as > > > me.

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread tomas
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:49:54PM +0700, Max Nikulin wrote: > On 21/06/2023 01:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > X clients these days need that to talk to the X server. On my box, > > for example: > > > > tomas@trotzki:~$ hexdump -C .Xauthority > > 01 00 00 07 74 72 6f 74 7a

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/06/2023 01:15, gene heskett wrote: gene@coyote:/usr/local/bin$ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Failed to initialize GTK. Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. Please restart

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Max Nikulin
On 21/06/2023 01:41, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: X clients these days need that to talk to the X server. On my box, for example: tomas@trotzki:~$ hexdump -C .Xauthority 01 00 00 07 74 72 6f 74 7a 6b 69 00 01 30 00 12 |trotzki..0..| 0010 4d 49 54 2d 4d 41 47 49

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 09:33, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:23:41AM -0400, Maurice Heskett wrote: On 6/21/23 08:33, Andy Smith wrote: I'm sure there are other advanced editors that can do the same. Maybe geany can; I'm not familiar with it. You are missing out on one of linux's

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Reco
Hi. On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > > My fav editor, geany is also > > dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as > > me. So there is a common problem. > > Well, you could

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:23:41AM -0400, Maurice Heskett wrote: > On 6/21/23 08:33, Andy Smith wrote: > > I'm sure there are other advanced editors that can do the same. > > Maybe geany can; I'm not familiar with it. > You are missing out on one of linux's better coding efforts Andy. I

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 08:33, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 gene heskett wrote: My fav editor, geany is also dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as me. So there is a common problem.

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 07:58, Joe wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 gene heskett wrote: My fav editor, geany is also dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as me. So there is a common problem. Well, you could do it the right way: edit as you with geany in a work

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 12:57:41PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > My fav editor, geany is also > > dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as > > me. So there is a common problem. > > Well, you could do it the

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 03:01, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:24 AM Maurice Heskett wrote: On 6/20/23 22:17, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send requests to

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Joe
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:34:45 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > My fav editor, geany is also > dead for roots use for exactly he same reason, but runs just fine as > me. So there is a common problem. Well, you could do it the right way: edit as you with geany in a work directory, copy to/from the

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Felix Miata
Jeffrey Walton composed on 2023-06-21 03:00 (UTC-0400): > Maurice Heskett wrote: ... >> the only damned way I can >> login is as root! ... > Who are you? I thought a person named Gene was having trouble. Why are > you logging in as gene?

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Nicolas George
to...@tuxteam.de (12023-06-21): > In my view, the user should have the last say. For > me, that is non-negociable :-) Plonk is not restricting anybody's freedom to have the last say. And plonk is clearly the only sane way of dealing with threads like this and the people who feed

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:24 AM Maurice Heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 22:17, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 > > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [...] > >> In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send > >> requests to a daemon that runs as

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 02:23:31AM -0400, Maurice Heskett wrote: > my last msg indicated I was going to logout and back in. Which I > tried to do, but with a root pw set, or something else, IDK and > don't at this point care because the only damned way I can login > is as

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/21/23 01:12, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:17 PM wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: [...] In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands with

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Maurice Heskett
On 6/20/23 22:17, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why? What's special about GUI apps versus those

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:17 PM wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > [...] > > In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send > > requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands > > with "sudo" or something, to do

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:19:48PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > geany it seems might have a problem. > But it wasn't installed so I just used packagekit to install all of it as I > use it heavily writing g-codes, so lets try it live and in person: > > root@coyote:~# geany .Xauthority >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 09:40:22PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:12:56 -0400 > Greg Wooledge wrote: > > [snip] > > > 1) Have a root password. SET A FUCKING ROOT PASSWORD. Seriously. > > Do that, and there are those who will harangue you for it. Sadly, >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:49:07PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:35:00PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > with a slight difference. So now I have an unk pw set for root, and will > > likely have to re-install, again if I reboot. > > Nonsense. You can set a new root

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 08:39:35PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:57:30AM -0400, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > > On 6/20/23 10:51, gene heskett wrote: > > > Easy: > > > gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic > > > [sudo] password for gene: > > > Invalid

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Anssi Saari
writes: > I infer that Synaptic, by requiring root privileges to be truly useful, > is mis-designed, since there isn't a daemon executing root level > commands in the background. Well, no. There is a common framework for this and it's called PolicyKit.

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread paulf
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com > wrote: > > Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why? > > What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal? > > The extreme

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread paulf
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 18:12:56 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: [snip] > 1) Have a root password. SET A FUCKING ROOT PASSWORD. Seriously. Do that, and there are those who will harangue you for it. Sadly, people who argue either way know more than I do about these security matters. And because expert

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread paulf
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:56:36 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > Like firefox, its big and complex, but unlike > gedit has never trashed a file for me, gedit has ruined so many I > finally banned it from my machines, all of them. Vim for the win! (kidding) Paul -- Paul M. Foster Personal Blog:

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 07:35:00PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > with a slight difference. So now I have an unk pw set for root, and will > likely have to re-install, again if I reboot. Nonsense. You can set a new root password with "sudo passwd root" any time you wish, even without knowing

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 18:13, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 06:01:00PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: Alright then the question is, is policykit the solution, or do we install it, then spend two weeks and wreck 7 installs configuring it to work? In other words, get to the specifics or find a new

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I understand not running, say, VLC as root. But Synaptic? It allows you > to search, install and remove packages. Two of those things can't be > done without root permissions. I absolutely run it as root. > The problem is not what the App is expected to do, but the GUI code may "accidentally" do

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. >> Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without >> root permission > > Thank you. That's the error I saw Correction: the above is not an error message. It's a guess of the likely cause of the error

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello Gene, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 06:01:00PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Alright then the question is, is policykit the solution, or do we > install it, then spend two weeks and wreck 7 installs configuring > it to work? In other words, get to the specifics or find a new horse. I think it's

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:44:10PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. […] > Andy, if you aren't behind dd-wrt for your home network, don't pretend to > tell me what I can't do I think your contributions to this list do a

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 06:01:00PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > Alright then the question is, is policykit the solution, or do we > install it, then spend two weeks and wreck 7 installs configuring > it to work? In other words, get to the specifics or find a new horse. I don't use synaptic, or

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 17:18, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:39:35 + Andy Smith wrote: Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. Plenty of people have been wasting their time trying to

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 17:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why? What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal? The extreme example is a web browser. Your

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 16:40, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:57:30AM -0400, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: On 6/20/23 10:51, gene heskett wrote: Easy: gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic [sudo] password for gene: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect:

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 16:01, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:37:01 -0400 gene heskett wrote: Gene, this is a long shot. Do you have any KDE or qt components installed? in packagekit: kde search = desktop-base, girl.2-webkit2, libblockdev2, libblockdev-crypto2, libblockdev-fs2,

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2023-06-20 16:08 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> gene heskett composed on 2023-06-20 10:51 (UTC-0400): Independently of whether you are able to do that without corrupting something, please provide here GUI terminal input/output from 'inxi -GSaz',

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 14:35, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:15:19 -0400 gene heskett wrote: [snip] gene@coyote:/usr/local/bin$ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Failed to initialize GTK. Probably

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:39:35 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. > > Plenty of people have been wasting their time trying to tell him not > > to do that

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why? > What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal? The extreme example is a web browser. Your typical web browser probably has thousands

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread paulf
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:39:35 + Andy Smith wrote: [snip] > > Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. > Plenty of people have been wasting their time trying to tell him not > to do that for years now, and the last thing they need is bystanders > handing him a

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 14:32, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 02:15:19PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: On 6/20/23 14:03, zithro wrote: On 20 Jun 2023 18:21, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:57:30AM -0400, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: > On 6/20/23 10:51, gene heskett wrote: > > Easy: > > gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic > > [sudo] password for gene: > > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: > > Connection refused > >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 12:50, Felix Miata wrote: gene heskett composed on 2023-06-20 10:51 (UTC-0400): Independently of whether you are able to do that without corrupting something, please provide here GUI terminal input/output from 'inxi -GSaz', ... This is still bullseye, a netinstall from a week ago

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 13:37:01 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > > > > Gene, this is a long shot. Do you have any KDE or qt components > > installed? > > > in packagekit: > kde search = desktop-base, girl.2-webkit2, libblockdev2, > libblockdev-crypto2, libblockdev-fs2, libblockdev-loop2, >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 02:35:08PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:15:19 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > [snip] > > > gene@coyote:/usr/local/bin$ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic > > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not > > connect: Connection

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread paulf
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 14:15:19 -0400 gene heskett wrote: [snip] > gene@coyote:/usr/local/bin$ pkexec /usr/sbin/synaptic > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not > connect: Connection refused > Failed to initialize GTK. > > Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 02:15:19PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 14:03, zithro wrote: > > On 20 Jun 2023 18:21, Charles Curley wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 > > > Anders Andersson wrote: > > > > > > > I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce? > >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 14:03, zithro wrote: On 20 Jun 2023 18:21, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce? Nope. I have synaptic running here with xfce4 on Bullseye. synaptic    0.90.2    amd64

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread zithro
On 20 Jun 2023 18:21, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce? Nope. I have synaptic running here with xfce4 on Bullseye. synaptic0.90.2 amd64 xfce4 4.16all

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 10:51:13AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > Easy: > gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic > [sudo] password for gene: > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: > Connection refused > Failed to initialize GTK. Gene, this is just not

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 12:15, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:10:26 -0400 gene heskett wrote: I am not a gnome fan. Packagekit says all 157 synaptic dependencies are present and accounted for, but it will not run here, bitching about wayland and root. So IMNSHO, there must be a dependency

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Xiyue Deng
writes: > [[PGP Signed Part:Undecided]] > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:06:23AM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: >> > As far as I know, apt is pretty much apt-get >> >> If you're using Debian 12 then the -get is gone. > > No, it's still there, whenever you need it :) > > Cheers IIUC "apt" is a

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2023-06-20 10:51 (UTC-0400): >> Independently of whether you are able to do that without corrupting >> something, >> please provide here GUI terminal input/output from 'inxi -GSaz', ... > This is still bullseye, a netinstall from a week ago and I have > no inxi according

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread David Wright
On Tue 20 Jun 2023 at 11:12:37 (-0400), pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:51:13 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > [snip] > > > > Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. > > Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without > >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: > I'm running Gnome. Maybe synaptic is not compatible with xfce? Nope. I have synaptic running here with xfce4 on Bullseye. synaptic0.90.2 amd64 xfce4 4.16all -- Does anybody read signatures any more?

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:10:26 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > I am not a gnome fan. Packagekit says all 157 synaptic dependencies > are present and accounted for, but it will not run here, bitching > about wayland and root. > > So IMNSHO, there must be a dependency that isn't satisfied on an > xfce4

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Joe
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:51:13 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic > [sudo] password for gene: > Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not > connect: Connection refused > Failed to initialize GTK. > > Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 11:29, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: I don't have synaptic in the path, but the icon is setup to start a program that *is* in my path: synaptic-pkexec Maybe you can try that, I think that's responsible for asking about

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 10:57, Sarunas Burdulis wrote: On 6/20/23 10:51, gene heskett wrote: Easy: gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic [sudo] password for gene: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Failed to initialize GTK. [...] So perhaps copy

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 10:54, Anders Andersson wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 9:36 AM gene heskett wrote: On 6/20/23 00:32, Anders Andersson wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:38 AM gene heskett wrote: I'm with you Paul, if Anders know how to do it, please PUBLISH the how. For a while on bullseye, a

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread paulf
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 10:51:13 -0400 gene heskett wrote: [snip] > Probably you're running Synaptic on Wayland with root permission. > Please restart your session without Wayland, or run Synaptic without > root permission Thank you. That's the error I saw when I tried this some time back under

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread paulf
On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:52:47 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: > I don't have synaptic in the path, but the icon is setup to start a > program that *is* in my path: synaptic-pkexec > > Maybe you can try that, I think that's responsible for asking about > your password. /usr/bin/synaptic-pkexec is

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
On 6/20/23 10:51, gene heskett wrote: Easy: gene@coyote:~/Pictures$ sudo synaptic [sudo] password for gene: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keyUnable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused Failed to initialize GTK. [...] So perhaps copy that cookie into /root/?: sudo cp

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 08:06, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 03:36:20AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: from an xfce4 terminal shell, it bitches about wayland and exits, Please show the command you typed, and the full output of that command. It's pretty irritating that we have to ASK for that.

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Anders Andersson
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 9:36 AM gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 00:32, Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 5:38 AM gene heskett wrote: > >> > >> I'm with you Paul, if Anders know how to do it, please PUBLISH the how. > >> For a while on bullseye, a "sudo -E synaptic" worked,

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 07:17, Felix Miata wrote: gene heskett composed on 2023-06-20 03:13 (UTC-0400): Why is it Gene thinks any trouble he has has anything to do with Wayland? XFCE doesn't run in Wayland. The only Wayland XFCE users must have is the foundation Wayland requires from Xorg, which no one can

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread David Wright
On Tue 20 Jun 2023 at 10:10:26 (-0400), gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 05:22, didier gaumet wrote: > > - Synaptic does not need Wayland, it can run on Wayland. > > > > - On a standard Debian 12 (Gnome) installation, Synaptic works OOTB > > > I am not a gnome fan. Packagekit says all 157

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread gene heskett
On 6/20/23 05:22, didier gaumet wrote: Le 20/06/2023 à 09:13, gene heskett a écrit : That needs a better explanation, Felix. As I see it, wayland can't run as root, so no app that needs root works with wayland. Since package managers with a gui need wayland, all the package managers that do

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 03:36:20AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > from an xfce4 terminal shell, it bitches about wayland and exits, Please show the command you typed, and the full output of that command. It's pretty irritating that we have to ASK for that. You should know to provide such basic

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Felix Miata
gene heskett composed on 2023-06-20 03:13 (UTC-0400): >> Why is it Gene thinks any trouble he has has anything to do with Wayland? >> XFCE >> doesn't run in Wayland. The only Wayland XFCE users must have is the >> foundation >> Wayland requires from Xorg, which no one can be rid of (nor need

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 09:13, gene heskett a écrit : That needs a better explanation, Felix. As I see it, wayland can't run as root, so no app that needs root works with wayland. Since package managers with a gui need wayland, all the package managers that do have a gui, are now dead except gnome

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread didier gaumet
Le 20/06/2023 à 04:41, pa...@quillandmouse.com a écrit : On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 03:58:18 +0200 Anders Andersson wrote: [snip] I've been watching this thread from afar for a while and it still puzzles me why people keep bringing up wayland. I've been running wayland for years, and synaptic works

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:06:23AM -0400, Charles Kroeger wrote: > > As far as I know, apt is pretty much apt-get > > If you're using Debian 12 then the -get is gone. No, it's still there, whenever you need it :) Cheers -- t signature.asc Description: PGP signature

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