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?

I think I found the problem. Everytime you change the preferences on
PPC the main package list is empty afterwards. It only happens on
PPC. Can you please install:
http://people.debian.org/~mvo/synaptic/warty/synaptic_0.53.4-1ubuntu5_powerpc.deb
and see if it fixes your problem? You may have to go to the
"Settings/Preferences/Columns and Fonts" settings and reeanble the
columns. 

thanks,
 Michael
 

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