posting this because it took me quite some time to figure this out, im sure someone will appreciate it.


i know, like me, some of you don't like the way that your synaptic package manager looks fresh out of windows 95. so, after some research, i found a rather elegant solution. the problem is, the synaptic manager is run out of a root account. the root account does not have any themes in it. so the problem is, it has no themes to apply.

so heres what wee do

wee can either copy over our .theme and .icon folders to the root directory, if wee have the memory, or wee can do what i did.

wee can create a symbolic link between the root themes and icons folders.

*note: these commands must be run as root

if you are using ubuntu, an easy way to run terminal commands as root is to use "sudo bash"
that will make the terminal run as root for as long as it is open.
if you are on debian or some other distro, simply use a root terminal, or login as root.

so
here is what you need to put in

replace ******** with your normal username

and that's all you have to do!

Clever...