Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help

[Jim Barbour <jbar barcore com>]

Ah! Try this

sudo /usr/sbin/synaptic

and see if that works.

If it does, then sudo is messing with your PATH, and I can help you
fix that.

Jim

> 
> After the command "% sudo synaptic" the result is "cannot find command" . I 
> tried to translate from Dutch.
> Milton
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Barbour" <jbar barcore com>
> To: "Milton" <milton tomaatnet nl>
> Cc: <Orca-list gnome org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 6:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [orca-list] sysadmin help
> 
> 
> Milton,
> 
> Can you try running sudo from within a gnome-terminal and tell us what
> the output of the sudo command is?
> 
> alt+f2: gnome-terminal
> (inside the terminal)
> % sudo symaptic
> <what happens here>
> 
> Also, please know that you can use other tools like aptitude or
> apt-get to manage packages.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> Jim
> 
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 06:27:34PM +0200, Milton wrote:
> > Hello listers,
> > I'm new with Ubuntu/linux. The installation was a great success and right 
> > now I run Ubuntu 8.04.1 and Orca 2.23.6.
> > I need your help for getting sysadmin accessibility. I did the following: 
> > In /root I create a .orbitrc file and with the cat command I
> > see the 2 lines
> > ORBIIOPIPv4=1
> > and
> > ORBIIOPUNIX=0
> > and with the visudo command I add the line
> > Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"
> > With the chmod command the permission was set to 440
> > But still no access to e.g. sudo synaptic.
> > Did I miss something or do something wrong?
> > Thanks in advance.
> > Milton