Problem with Synaptic?

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I will of course do as you say Jerry, but the way i mentioned in my previous post was the way i have usually taken to ensure that Synaptic was upto date prior to installing software.

There is a difference between installing updates to computer and refreshing the list of available software from repositories in Synaptic.  What you're doing is installing updates, which should only be done through LL's dedicated program for that.  To simply make sure that the list of software available for installing through Synaptic is up-to-date all you need to do is hit the "Reload" button in Synaptic (in upper left corner of window).