Comment 43 for bug 655831

Hello All,

Just thought I would add a comment to this.
The apt-xapian-index has been driving me mad since installing Ubuntu 16.04, being very slow rebuilding and it was rebuilding every time I opened Synaptic taking a few minutes. I had a script that I found on ubuntu forum that would rebuild the index on a cronjob but that didn't solve the slow rebuilding of the index. I just found this build of apt-xapian-index and now the index rebuilds in only a couple of seconds and seems to have solved the problem on my machine. Here is the link if anyone is interested: https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/apt-xapian-index/download. This file(apt-xapian-index_0.47+nmu2_all.deb) seems to have cured things for me. All I did was purged Synaptic and also apt-xapin-index and re-installed Synaptic, then the new apt-xapian-index from the link and it works super on this machine. I hope this helps someone as I have tried everything to get this index thing working properly. What a PIA,

Cheers,

Singtoh