Synaptic does not show Packets anymore

[steve]

On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 21:15 +0200, BlackMac wrote:
> I have installed Ubuntu on my G4 Mac and everything ran fine in the
> first place. I tried to get DVD Playback working by following the
> instructions from the WIKI. After figuring out that one of those
> repositories is only available for i386 I deleted it (the repository)
> from the list. Now Synaptic does still find updates and does still
> appear to "know" about all packets (apt-get works and Synaptic still
> shows me how many packets it found), but it does not display them in
> the list. I can't select anything anymore. When I try to select
> another font for the application (inside Synaptics settings) it
> crashes. Any ideas?
> 
> Thank you
> Stefan
> 

This happened to me too. I have an iMac G3. Someone told me to move
the .synaptic file, essentially causing a new one to be made. So delete
or move /root/.synaptic. Restart synaptic. Packages should be listed.

steve