I'm running Mint 12 KDE. The software center in mint is called mintinstall. When I try to run it, some of the icons do not display properly and I can't install anything. If I open a Konsole window and start it as sudo mintinstall, it works fine. Is there a way to fix this?

Hi,

that is a very distro specific question and you might be better off in the mint forum. I for one have never heard of mintinstall (not that that matters one jot...).

when you run mintinstall are you running it with kdesudo? this is on of those apps that must be run as root as it needs root privileges

fyi - if you open gui apps as root using sudo instead of kdesudo you will at some point run into problems with file permissions

@Toad, you're right. I should have placed this in the Mint forum. I'll look for that and see if I can move this there.

@google01103, thanks for that. The problem is that it came this way out of the box, so I'm thinking there might be something else amiss. If I DO change the way it's configured in the menu system, I'll put a kdesudo in front of it.

I would edit the menu and place a kdesu in front of it, but different distro's do things differently sp I would suggest asking on the Mint forum and/or post a Mint bug

Thanks google01103. I posted it on the Mint forum, so we'll see what they say. In the meantime, I think I'll just put the kdesudo in there.