Trouble installing Unity Place Filesearch

[Tornikee]

Hello. I've been trying to install the Unity Place Filesearch ( http://bit.ly/GZlvq1 ) lens for the possibility of searching for all files (not just previously opened) via Unity. After entering the install command:

sudo apt-get install unity-place-filesearcha "E: Unable to locate package unity-place-filesearch" error appears. Does this mean the software source package does not exist anymore? And if yes, where else can I find it / which package can I substitute it with?

[zombifier25]

You forgot the first two steps of the guide:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pydave/unity-lenses
sudo apt-get update
The package you need to install can only be found in the PPA above.

[Tornikee]

Sorry, forgot to mention I entered those two too, they just didn't cause any error messages, so I didn't include them in my post.

[Krytarik]

... a "E: Unable to locate package unity-place-filesearch" error appears. Does this mean the software source package does not exist anymore? And if yes, where else can I find it / which package can I substitute it with?
The author has changed the name of the package since WebUpd8 posted about it in May last year, to "unity-filesearch-lens"; plus there wasn't ever a package with that old name for Oneiric 11.10.

Source: https://launchpad.net/~pydave/+archive/unity-lenses (https://launchpad.net/%7Epydave/+archive/unity-lenses)

Regards.

[Tornikee]

Thanks a lot.

[Tornikee]

Is there similar extension for GNOME? Couldn't find one.

[stevenswall]

Bump. Has anyone had success recently with this? I'm on 12.04, and the repository no longer seems to work. Is there a way around this or a .deb I could download?

[Tornikee]

Bump. Has anyone had success recently with this? I'm on 12.04, and the repository no longer seems to work. Is there a way around this or a .deb I could download?
While I'm not sure how you could solve this, I myself have switched to using Synapse (http://bit.ly/SsOvM3) for this need. Check it out.