Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: synaptic
I installed 10.04 on my laptop without a network connection, so the
installation was unable to update package lists or any other fancy
things before I first booted the system.
Soon after booting, with internet now set up, both Synaptic and aptitude
were unable to find either the 'vim' or 'xchat'. If you typed 'vim' into
a terminal it would suggest you install the vim package, but aptitude
could then not find it.
After telling synaptic to reload the package lists and waiting for
around 5 minutes, aptitude was able to find and install both vim and
xchat. However, synaptic still had no idea about these packages, as
shown by the attached screenshot.
In summary:
1) Package lists should be reloaded automatically when the OS first has an
internet connection or supplied on the installation disk.
2) Synaptic needs to refresh with these new package lists without requiring a
reboot.
3) Terminal should never suggest to install a package that aptitude/synaptic
know nothing about.
Note: I am unsure whether synaptic just failed to recompile its search
correctly or had no knowledge of the package at all. As the search is
the best way to find a package, I would still consider this a critical
failure.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: synaptic 0.63.1ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun May 2 15:24:15 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
** Affects: synaptic (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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Does not initialise properly after install
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573713
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