Synaptic package manager broke

[Michael Vogt]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 10:44:24PM +0100, Alan Medlock wrote:
> I've installed Ubuntu on my G4 Mac dual booting with MacOSX, very
> intuitive and no initial problems. However something has gone wrong with
> synaptic package manager - I can no longer see packages in the main
> window. I can update blindly by reloading the package list and selecting
> "mark all upgrades" and then "apply" but otherwise it is unusable. Is
> there a fix?

This problem does apparently only happen on ppc. I got access to a old
G3 powerbook and can reproduce the problem now (I couldn't with my
i386 machines). 

Can you please send your /root/.synaptic/synaptic.conf file to me and
remove (or rename it afterwards)? That should fix the problem. 

thanks,
 Michael
 

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