[SOLVED] Quick Search doesn't work in Synaptic (8.10)

[the8thstar]

I'm having a peculiar problem with synaptic that never occurred with the previous versions of Ubuntu. Apparently, the Quick Search tool is broken. It can't find anything at all.

Is there a fix for this? Thanks a lot!

[ajgreeny]

But surely there was no "Quick Search" in previous versions of synaptic. At least there isn't in my synaptic in 8.04 version. I haven't looked at 8.10 yet.

[drs305]

I'm having a peculiar problem with synaptic that never occurred with the previous versions of Ubuntu. Apparently, the Quick Search tool is broken. It can't find anything at all.

Is there a fix for this? Thanks a lot!

Quick search works for me. You might try reinstalling synaptic via command line:

sudo aptitude reinstall synaptic

[Paqman]

Apparently, the Quick Search tool is broken. It can't find anything at all.

Check that you're not filtering for more than one thing. I got caught out by this the first time I used the quick search bar, too.

[the8thstar]

Quick search works for me. You might try reinstalling synaptic via command line:

sudo aptitude reinstall synaptic

I did it, but nothing is changed.

[the8thstar]

Check that you're not filtering for more than one thing. I got caught out by this the first time I used the quick search bar, too.

What do you mean? This?

[drs305]

Can you be more specific about what happens? I have 'ALL' selected in the left window. When I type "2v" into the Quick Search box the only thing I see in the package list is "2vcard". If I type "Acrobat" I get a long list of packages associated with acroread.

I am using synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10

[cariboo]

Upate your sources list, the database needs to be populated, and always have All highlighted in the left hand pane. If you have anything highlighted you won't get the expected result.

Jim

[the8thstar]

Can you be more specific about what happens? I have 'ALL' selected in the left window. When I type "2v" into the Quick Search box the only thing I see in the package list is "2vcard". If I type "Acrobat" I get a long list of packages associated with acroread.

I am using synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10

Well, NOTHING happens, that's the problem really.

[philinux]

I thought I remembered this being buggy during testing.

Click Status first then quick search works or just click any package, that seems to kickstart it, then type.