Installed third party .DEBs not appearing as installed

[Duncan Bayne]

Binary package hint: synaptic

I am using synaptic 0.62.5ubuntu3 on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope 32-bit Desktop Edition on a Compaq C700 notebook.

I have installed several .DEB packages using gdebi (both Brother MFC 7220 drivers, and my own company-internal packages). These packages install correctly without any warnings, and can be removed with command-line tools (e.g. "apt-get remove mypackage"). My own packages validate correctly with lintian.

However, none of them - either my own, or Brother's - appear in Synaptic. I open Synaptic from the menu (System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager), click Origin, click All, then type the package names into "Quick search".

I expect to see my installed packages there; instead, nothing is displayed in the list of packages.

[Paul Elms (scifly)]

Hi,
Do these third party .debs appear if you use the regular search in synaptic?

Can you try typing in a terminal:

sudo update-apt-xapian-index

and then try the quick search again, do the packages appear now?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

setting importance to low before reviewing this report and leaving as incomplete because we had no response from the reporter.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 450220, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.