On 02/20/2011 09:40 AM, Werner Joss wrote:
from the debian menu, clicking synaptic does nothing.
try this:
locate synaptic
if it isn't found anywhere, it has been uninstalled (probably).
you can get it back with
well, actually, it came back with LOTS, and LOTS of files, including these:
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
/usr/sbin/se_synaptic
/usr/sbin/synaptic
/usr/share/synaptic
/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/synaptic.desktop
if it wasn't found, it would give back this error:
# /usr/sbin/synaptic
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
(synaptic:6768): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :1.0
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Paul Cartwright