Hello, I’m a muli-boot user. I confess I use Arch Linux more than OpenSuSE. To me it’s my back-up desktop which I only update AFTER I confirm that updating to the most recent Arch versions of my installed software didn’t break anything. (if it did, I fallback to using the older version still installed on OpenSuSE)
But eventually I do update OpenSuSE. I wanted to use the “software update viewer” found under:
applications menu->system->configuration
on my E17 desktop. But unlike the “install/remove software” {found in the same menu} selecting the “software update viewer” did not result in a pop-up asking for the root password. (Note if it matters I have “targetpw” in the Defaults line of my sudoers file) It did automatically search for updates. (I think it found about 18 of them) But when I clicked to install them, it fails because the user isn’t authenticated. So I used ps -A to determine that the only process removed by closing the update viewer was actually named “gpk-update-view”… However when I tried to call it from a root shell I got:
gpk-update-view: command not found
Which, caused me to go drastic. I logged out of E17 and did an:
$ sudo startx
From which resulting desktop environment I was finally able to start a usable version of the “software update viewer” (Though I had to blow by a warning about running that application as a privileged user… Which makes me wonder, If it’s not recommended to run it as a privileged user then either it should offer a non-privileged user the chance to authenticate, OR it shouldn’t have functions that require the authority of a privileged user)
My question is since I doubt it’s wise to effectively run startx as root, how am I supposed to run the software update application???
TIA
jtwdyp