Synaptic and dselect behaving oddly

[Nathan Sprangers]

Norman Silverstone wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:54 -0500, Nathan Sprangers wrote:
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>>I'm having a problem with Synaptic and dselect.  Synaptic no longer 
>>displays any packages.  In the status bar at the bottom it says "13151 
>>packages listed" but there aren't actually any packages listed.  Similar 
>>behavior in dselect: shows only packages that have been installed or 
>>removed, none that haven't been installed yet.  I think this started 
>>after I installed a couple source packages, but I wouldn't have expected 
>>that to cause this!
>>
>>Oh, something else that's interesting, aptitude works fine - shows 
>>everything, so I don't know what's up...
>>
>>~Nathan
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>Make sure that 'All' in the left hand panel is highlighted. It has
>happened to me.
>
>Norman
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Nothing changes when I select different sections or do a search except 
that instead of saying 13151 packages listed it says a different number 
- but still doesn't display them in the window! =)