Corrupted synaptic/apt-get database

[Florian Diesch]

Roberto Waltman <ubuntu at rwaltman.com> wrote:

> All of a sudden, synaptic shows many of the regular Ubuntu 
> packages (m4, slocate, vim, xserver-xorg, tidy, to name just a 
> few) as "Installed (local or obsolete)" under the Status panel.
>
> For all these packages I can only select "Mark for removal", the 
> upgrade or reinstall choices are greyed-out.

Maybe it's a problem with your mirror  (no, not the one in the
bathroom ;-) ). Try another one.




   Florian
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