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



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