Synaptic doesn't show all available packages

[helios91940]

Binary package hint: synaptic
I'm running ubuntu 8.10 amd64 version
In synaptic, when I launch a search with "quick search" or "search" some packages like emesene, open-jdk, deborphan... can't be find though they are in repositories.
In fact, I can install them using the terminal via apt (cf screenshots)

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it because your description didn't include enough information. You may find it helpful to read "How to report bugs effectively" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html. We'd be grateful if you would then provide a more complete description of the problem.

We have instructions on debugging some types of problems at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProcedures

At a minimum, we need:
1. the specific steps or actions you took that caused you to encounter the problem,
2. the behavior you expected, and
3. the behavior you actually encountered (in as much detail as possible).
Thanks!

[helios91940 (florian-plaza)]

There are some screenshots of the bug in attachment.
( I'm going to update the bug description in few minutes)

[lewille (cedric-heerbrant)]

I am having the same issue with a Kubuntu 8.10

To reply to Chris Coulson :
1. actions taken :
   activating the medibuntu tree :
        wget -q http://fr.packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add -
        sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/intrepid.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
   open adept (or synaptic)
   reload the package list
   search for a "non standard package" that is only in the medibuntu repository (e.g.: skype) (see attached screenshot)
2. behaviour expected :
   adept (or synaptic) should show me the package so I can select it to install it
3. the behaviour encountered :
   it does not show me the package

the thing is if I do for example :
   $ apt-cache search skype
   skytools - Skype database tools - Python parts
   skype - A VoIP software - Medibuntu package
   skype-common - A VoIP software - common files - Medibuntu package
   skype-static - A VoIP software - static variant - Medibuntu package
   skype-static-oss - A VoIP software - static-oss variant - Medibuntu package
   $ ls /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
   medibuntu.list
This tells me that the medibuntu repository is there and active !

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

I notice that you're both using the quick search box in Synaptic. There is another search feature (the old one), which shoud still work fine. For the Synaptic problem, could you please try running:

"sudo update-apt-xapian-index"

Then please restart Synaptic and try searching again.

The Adept issue is likely to be something different

[helios91940 (florian-plaza)]

Thank you for your answer.
I have run the command "sudo update-apt-xapian-index" and now quick search and search in synaptic work properly! It solved this bug but the command line is not user friendly...

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

The Adept issue is bug 287000.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks Jonathan. And the Synaptic issue is bug 288797