Hello, I'm also having a problem with synaptic; for more than a week it hasn't functioned correctly: sometimes I can do "Reload", but no packages show as upgradable. Sometimes synaptic claims that the package cache is corrupted. Yet "apt-get" has continued to work all along.
Just tonight, for example, synaptic showed nothing available for upgrade. I ran "apt-get update; apt-get dselect-upgrade": that downloaded and installed 200+ pacakges. I ran "synaptic" immediately thereafter and it claimed the cache was corrupt. -Steve -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]