Rebuild Synaptic Database

Problem : Synaptic has seemed to quit working.

Synaptic loads up but doesn't load the list and the menu's are grayed out.

Reason - It could be that the Synaptic database is corrupted. Solution - Open a terminal and enter these commands:

  [<you>@localhost ~]$ su 
     <Then press enter>

  Password: 
     <Enter the root password>

Remove the corrupt database:

  [root@localhost <you>]# rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db.* 

     <Then press enter>

Rebuild the database:

   [root@localhost <you>]# rpm -vv --rebuilddb 

     <Then press enter>

You'll see a lot of text scroll by, this may take sometime to complete. Let it finish!

Check for duplicate installed packages:

   [root@localhost ~]# dupeclean

     <Then press enter>

Clean out apt:

   [root@localhost ~]# apt-get clean

     <Then press enter>

   [root@localhost ~]# apt-get autoclean

     <Then press enter>

Close the terminal and try Synaptic again.

Database rebuild information provided by forum member old-polack and Texstar