Check if it's greyed out only if you start synaptic without administrative privileges and appears when you start it via gksu.
I guess software-properties-gtk has been moved to "suggests" because synaptic now has its own repo manager which starts if software- properties-gtk is not installed. Unfortunately, their own implementation is not without flaws: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1181573 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1179310 Title: Option to edit repositories missing in Synaptic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/1179310/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
