Things not visible in Synaptic

[Nicolas Kovacs]

Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 05:08:27, Sandy Harris a écrit :
> 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

After updating your sources.list, run :

$ sudo update-apt-xapian-index

This will take a while. Once it's completed, your new packages will appear in 
Synaptic.

Cheers,

Niki