quick search only displays installed packages

[Keith Worrell]

Binary package hint: synaptic

While similar to other bugs being reported, I have actually had a different experience.

quick search works as a filter, but if I type more than one letter then only installed packages remains. only typing one letter appears to work normally.

I would expect it to filter through package names containing the quick search sequence, like grep. doing a normal search results in the intersection.

ubuntu 9.04 daily March 2, 2009 AMD64

$ apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.62.5ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.62.5ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.62.5ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Jeff Norden (jeff-math)]

I've found the same behavior with 9.04 alpha 5 on i386.

[Ben Straton (fanum)]

I have the same issue (or similar) with 9.04 alpha 5 on a amd64. For me, the quick search only shows installed packages, regardless of number of letters entered, but the search feature will work for one letter searches only,

[Ben Straton (fanum)]

Found a Solution:

Close synaptic

sudo update-apt-xapian-index

[Cruncher (ubuntu-wkresse)]

Marking as duplicate. Unless you find that the workaround given by Ben Straton is not working for you?