Package: synaptic Version: 0.81.2 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer,
I ran into a newbie's mistake. I wanted to install a new package using synaptic and received an error that the package was not found. The problem was that the local repository database was out of date. After reloading the repository database, the new package installed fine. The problem is that it took me several days to notice my mistake. My suggestion is to include a piece of text in the error message that appears when a download of a package fails. The piece of text should recommend to the user to reload the repository database and try again. This could also be made conditional on the amount of time since the last repository database reload (e.g., one hour). Thank you Georg Stillfried -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.4 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages synaptic depends on: ii hicolor-icon-theme 0.13-1 ii libapt-inst1.5 1.0.9.8.3 ii libapt-pkg4.12 1.0.9.8.3 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u6 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1+deb8u1 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.12.1 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u5 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1+b1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1+deb8u1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libvte-2.90-9 1:0.36.3-1 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxapian22 1.2.19-1 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages synaptic recommends: ii libgtk2-perl 2:1.2492-4 ii policykit-1 0.105-8 ii rarian-compat 0.8.1-6 Versions of packages synaptic suggests: pn apt-xapian-index <none> pn deborphan <none> pn dwww <none> pn menu <none> pn software-properties-gtk <none> ii tasksel 3.31+deb8u1 -- no debconf information
