On Sun, 15 Aug 2021, Brian wrote:
On Sun 15 Aug 2021 at 20:13:55 +0200, Roger Price wrote:Does this mean that synaptic does _not_ call apt update, and that I should always run apt update manually before clicking on synaptic? Some experiments suggest that this is the case.You would have to describe the experiments to have anywhere near a convincing case that merited close attention.
1. I added "contrib non-free" to the deb lines in /etc/apt/sources.list 2. I ran synaptic, searched for "nvidia", and saw only 4 items. 3. I ran apt update 4. I ran synaptic, searched for "nvidia", and saw approximately 200 items. Roger