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nariknahom
Asked: 2018-08-17 08:20:00 +0800 CST

pkexec on WSL Error

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Launching pkexec synaptic in the below environment fails.

My PC specsare:

xfce desktop
ubuntu 18.04 on WSL
VcxSrv for X server

Here is the output:

~$ pkexec synaptic
Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory

Is this error expected? Any fix available?

xfce windows-subsystem-for-linux pkexec

1 Answers

  1. Open Synaptic in WSL using the following command:

    sudo -H synaptic &>/dev/null

    Note that you need to use sudo in order to give Synaptic root permissions that are required to install software , remove software , etc.

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