Synaptic in Fluxbox?

frostbyte · Post by **frostbyte** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:30 pm

Hello, I'm new to the forums here, but have been listening to the show for awhile now, and have heard that some of you are using ubuntu. I figured you guys might be a bit more familiar with it than me.

I'm currently using fluxbox on it...is it possible to run Synaptic within Fluxbox? When I try, it seems to try to run Gnome..and just sits there and I have to reboot.

Any Ideas?

Post by **dann** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 11:42 pm

I run it all the time in Fluxbox. I usually do it from a terminal, or that is the only way it will allow me to run it as I have to run sudo synaptic. It doesn't fire up nautilus at all.

macstevejb · Post by **macstevejb** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 4:48 am

insert this line into your /.fluxbox/menu directory:
[exec] (Synaptic Package Manager) {/usr/sbin/su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/synaptic} </usr/share/synaptic/pixmaps/synaptic_32x32.xpm>

always providing of course you have synaptic pre-installed in your distro, otherwise obtain via apt-get.

regards

frostbyte · Post by **frostbyte** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 12:56 pm

Thanks, that works great.