Synaptic and dselect behaving oddly

[Norman Silverstone]

On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:54 -0500, Nathan Sprangers wrote:
> I'm having a problem with Synaptic and dselect.  Synaptic no longer 
> displays any packages.  In the status bar at the bottom it says "13151 
> packages listed" but there aren't actually any packages listed.  Similar 
> behavior in dselect: shows only packages that have been installed or 
> removed, none that haven't been installed yet.  I think this started 
> after I installed a couple source packages, but I wouldn't have expected 
> that to cause this!
> 
> Oh, something else that's interesting, aptitude works fine - shows 
> everything, so I don't know what's up...
> 
> ~Nathan
> 

Make sure that 'All' in the left hand panel is highlighted. It has
happened to me.

Norman