Synaptic dont show me all the software

[joaquin]

Binary package hint: synaptic

I cant find programs like: vlc, xchat, unrar and many of them. The option to select is ALL and synaptic list a total of 26143. In origin of the software the options main, universe, restricted and multiverse are correctly on.

Sorry my english.

Ubuntu 8.10
Synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported, but please feel free to report any other bugs you find.

[António Lima (amrlima)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Try sudo aptitude install package (replace package with aplication to install ex: unrar) to see what you get.

[António Lima (amrlima)]

Sorry for the double answer, left the page open and went away, then made the comment.

[joaquin (adi0-es)]

Thanks a lot, the search of synaptic works ok now. Sorry for the duplicate report.