9.04: no "third party" apps available ?

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
> Hi list,
> I just installed 9.04, and in Applications->Add-Remove... utility, when
> I select the "Third Party Applications", it does list anything at all.
> I do have the "canonical partner" repository enabled, I rush to say ;-)
>
> When this repo was created a couple years ago, there were a few apps
> like Opera and something else. I was hoping that the number of
> partners/apps would increase over the years, not go back to nil ! :-/
>
> Are there really zero commercial apps available in Jaunty, or is there
> something not quite working my side ?

Huh.  I see what you mean.  I can't get Synaptic to summarize what's
in there either.
it's not empty - see http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/pool/partner/

A quick look at the aptitude man page doesn't show me how to tease it
out that way either.

Anybody else tell us if
a - this seems like a bug to you too - e.g. we should add this to launchpad
b - a simple way to get a list of what's available in that repository
using add-remove/synaptic etc?

Brian
-- 
All you need to know about Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty -> gconftool -s --type
bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false