Synaptic Not Showing List of Installed Software [Solved]

[hal8000]

This was previously working, but now if I click the synaptic icon, the status only shows items
All and Not Installed.

There were options of local installed, Installed and others.

I am using the Heanet mirror.

From a terminal:
rpm -qa  (still shows a list of installed packages).

With Synaptic Gui, File , History also shows (by date) list of installed packages,
but not under status.

I have restarted, tried a different mirror but still no list of installed software.
Any ideas how to get the list back?

[uncleV]

Here on KDE FullMonty:

[hal8000]

HI Uncle,
Thanks for the reply, your screenshot is how my synaptic used to look.
Now all I see is this (link image below):




For example package a2ps is already installed

[anc@orac ~]$ rpm -qa | grep a2ps
a2ps-4.14-2pclos2009

Not sure why this has happened.

[AS]

Hi,

try rebuild rpm database: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,80839.msg669175.html#msg669175

AS

[hal8000]

Thank you AS that fixed it, and thanks to Tex for the howto in the Tips Section !!