Things not visible in Synaptic

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 1:03 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I just put 10.10 on another machine, am trying to add various things
>> I need or want. Synaptic is not showing them. Searches for
>> Latex, Texworks, cgoban, pltscheme all fail. These are all things
>> I have installed on another 10.10 box.
>>
>> /etc/apt/sources.list looked about right but I simplified it, which
>> did not fix the problem. It now has:
>>
>> deb http://ftp.sjtu.edu.cn/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main restricted
>> universe multiverse
>> deb-src http://ftp.sjtu.edu.cn/ubuntu/ maverick-updates main
>> restricted universe multiverse
>
> They all install just fine with sudo apt-get install <name>
> but even after that Synaptic does not see them.

On 10.10/64 I get hits for latex, texworks and cgoban in Synaptic, not
for pltscheme.

Are you sure you are searching correctly? Do you want my
/etc/apt/souces.list.d/souces.list for comparison?

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux