On Feb 20, 2011, at 9:25, Paul Cartwright paul@pcartwright.com wrote:
in a super-user terminal I get this: # synaptic Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key (synaptic:19493): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1.0
Normal.
in a user terminal I get this: $ synaptic bash: synaptic: command not found
Also normal.
from the debian menu, clicking synaptic does nothing.
Can you check if you have kdesu or kdesudo from trinity installed? Also, if you have gksu installed?