Synaptic in Jaunty only lists installed packages

[Jonathan Cohen]

Binary package hint: synaptic

I am using Ubuntu 9.04 and synaptic 0.62.5ubuntu2.1. When I start synaptic and search for packages, the search only returns packages that are already installed. For example, when I search for vim, the search only returns vim-tiny and vim-tiny, which are installed, not vim-gnome or vim-runtime, which are not. Even after I installed the latter two packages using apt-get, synaptic does not report them as installed.

[nosoupforyou (dr-m4rio)]

I have a similar problem regarding the search when adding/removing packages. I think the cause is the same bug but I can search for some packages just fine, but if I do a search for a package that does not exist, and I see no results, any subsequent searches will not give any results, I have to close and re-open the package manager to do a search again. This is a new problem in 9.04 that never occurred in 8.10, can you check if your also experiencing this and if you do not have these symptoms, I can report this as a different bug.

[Jonathan Cohen (jkcohen)]

I'm not observing that behavior. Must be a different bug.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New".
Thanks again!