Search function in Synaptic yields no results

[Norm24]

Ubuntu Version:
24.04.3

Desktop Environment (if applicable):
Mate

Problem Description:
Search function in Synaptic Package manager no longer displays results

Relevant System Information:
Dell LatitudeE7450,Intel CoreI5,16GB RAM,Intel HD Graphics 5500

What I’ve Tried:
Re-install Synaptic,Reboot,booting into previous kernal

I noticed this morning after opening Synaptic to check to see what version of a package I had installed that no results came up for the package.So I tried several different packages that I know are installed and came up with nothing.

[hdd-gehrke]

Synaptic uses the same database as the command line ‘apt’ tools. Try whether ‘sudo apt-get update’ gets you back to a working system. At worst, its output should give us another data point on what’s wrong.

[Norm24]

Here’s the output from ‘sudo apt update’

Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InRelease              
Hit:3 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu noble InRelease                 
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease            
Get:5 https://repo.steampowered.com/steam stable InRelease [3,622 B]           
Hit:7 https://repo.protonvpn.com/debian stable InRelease                       
Hit:6 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/ubuntuzilla/mozilla/apt all InRelease
Hit:8 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease               
Hit:9 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable InRelease               
Hit:10 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/deki/firejail/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:11 https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu noble-apps-security InRelease
Hit:12 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/flatpak/stable/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:13 https://esm.ubuntu.com/apps/ubuntu noble-apps-updates InRelease
Hit:14 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/gerardpuig/ppa/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:15 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu noble-infra-security InRelease
Hit:16 https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-prereleases/ubuntu noble InRelease
Hit:17 https://esm.ubuntu.com/infra/ubuntu noble-infra-updates InRelease
Fetched 3,622 B in 1s (2,600 B/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.

When I open Synaptic this is what I see which is normal behavior:

[qiii]

What is the result of issuing the following command?

dpkg -l | grep <package_name>

That should help us confirm whether dpkg is aware of the installed package.

[tea-for-one]

Left pane lower window > Click Status
Left pane upper window > Click Installed

[Norm24]

Figured it out.I just noticed in the search box next to Look in: was set to Maintainer,once set to Name or Description and Name I received search results.

Sorry for wasting everyone’s time for something so simple!