Comment 28 for bug 86843

i can confirm it does not work out of the box

i am using a rather fresh hardy install on a thinkpad r52, and installed thinkfinger using procedure for hardy from thinkwiki
(ie using ubuntu provided packages)

same results as Adrian:
it will work from command line eg sudo update-manager
but not from the menu (or, for that matter, just launching update-manager without sudo from command line)

repeating does not help. actually what happens is that sudo segfaults:
excerpt from /var/log/messages when starting update-manager :

Aug 2 14:28:15 think kernel: [ 1606.831798] input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /devices/virtual/input/input18
Aug 2 14:28:55 think kernel: [ 3762.393400] sudo[17339]: segfault at b8429fb8 eip b7c87a47 esp b741b5d0 error 6