package installation problem

[Fred Roller]

Michal Filka wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a strange problem with synaptic. I try to install wine package.
> I've added http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt repository.
>
> When I try to search list of available packages in synaptic, wine is
> not found. However, "sudo apt-cache search wine" finds a package.
> Why the package is not seen by synaptic?
>
> Ubuntu 9.04.
>
> Thanks
> Michal Filka
>
>   
Did you "Reload" after you added the new repository?

You can also try from a terminal:

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo update-apt-xapian-index

this will re-index synaptic I believe. 

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