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'.
