On 2011-12-08 01:02 +0100, Eugenio M. Vigo wrote: > running aptitude as root shows no issues at all: the cache is correctly > displayed on the ncurses UI and searching packages via 'aptitude search > <package>' works as expected. > > However, when running aptitude as a non-root user, the following happens: > > 1) On the ncurses UI, all installed packages are shown as local or > obsolete, except those in ~c status, which are listed under > non-installed. > > 2) When doing 'aptitude search <package>', nothing will be found except > those packages that happen to be in ~c status.
Please show the output of "ls -lRa /var/lib/apt". Regards, Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org