List of available application is out of date...

[Mike]

There are times when after I go to Add/Remove it reports that the list of available applications is out of date, even after I reload it, and opening it again...
This is not usually happening..

Using Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy)

[Luis Silva (luis-silva)]

The same is happening to me, and im using the 6.06 LTS version.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This can happen if the modification time of the sources.list is more recent than any file in /var/lib/apt/lists/. A apt-get update (or synatic relaod) does unfortunately not fix it as it uses the If-Modified-Since header and if the files did not change, then they will not the updated and the timestamp is the same.

A fix would be to make apt write a stamp file when it did its last update.

[Przemek K. (azrael)]

Is this bug still happening in Ubuntu 8.04, 8.10 or 9.04?
9.10 doesn't use gnome-app-install so it's probably not affected.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. Closing all related bugs.