Re: Always run apt update before clicking on synaptic ?
On Sun, 15 Aug 2021 20:45:17 +0200 (CEST), Roger Price wrote:
> 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.
This is what you are missing:
in synaptic, you should always run 'Edit > Reload Package Information' or Ctrl-R
before upgrading. It does the same as 'apt update'.
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