Quick Search is confusing UI

[Nicholas Smith]

Binary package hint: synaptic

When trying to install a package (cheese) using the Quick Search field, the package wasn't found. I had to click on the Search button and search through that "Find" dialog to actually find the package. If this is the intended functionality then the UI should be changed to provide some feedback / hint to that effect. The way it works now after searching I thought the package didn't exist.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
Package: synaptic 0.62.1ubuntu10
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Paul Elms (scifly)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Can you try typing in a terminal:
sudo update-apt-xapian-index

and then try the quick search again, does the cheese package appear now?

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!