Donald Duquet wrote:

> I'm operating Fedora Core 1.
>
> Whether I click on the icon in System Tools or type synaptic on the
> command line I get no response. A search for synaptic shows the executable
> is in /usr/sbin and the link to it is in /usr/bin.
>
> What can I do to get it open?

Are you running it as root? AFAIK, synaptic can only be run by root.

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Travis Casey wrote:

> Donald Duquet wrote:
>
>> I'm operating Fedora Core 1.
>>
>> Whether I click on the icon in System Tools or type synaptic on the
>> command line I get no response. A search for synaptic shows the
>> executable is in /usr/sbin and the link to it is in /usr/bin.
>>
>> What can I do to get it open?
>
> Are you running it as root? AFAIK, synaptic can only be run by root.
>
Yes, as root.