Synaptic package manager broke

[Alan Medlock]

On Thu, 2004-10-14 at 13:19 +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> 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
>  
It worked, problem solved - many thanks.

Alan