quick search not accessible in lubuntu

[c_ellesley]

Binary package hint: synaptic

in ubuntu lucid beta 1
desktop lubuntu
synaptic 0.62.5
I can't type anything in the quick search field, no text can be entered

this only happens in lubuntu not with the normal lucid ubuntu

[c_ellesley (archelegraph)]

The Quick-Search actually is greyed out. Is this on purpose?

[c_ellesley (archelegraph)]

now version 0.63.1ubuntu5
strange: synaptic about still says its 0.62.5..

[c_ellesley (archelegraph)]

question was wether to file a bug (see my question in #2) -answer was yes...

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

Is the package apt-xapian-index installed on your system ?

[Berni (jc4you)]

Hi!

The same with me. But after I installed the package apt-xapian-index it's working again.
Thanks Jean.
Maybe this package (apt-xapian-index) should be recommended in the synaptic package.

[c_ellesley (archelegraph)]

installing apt-xapian-index made it work. Thank you!
(If the quick-search-field wasn't there at all, it would be easier to understand that this funktion was deliberately ommitted in lubuntu to save diskspace and the machine faster: building the index takes long on old machines...)

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

a-x-i is part of the Recommends of synaptic but maybe Lubuntu is so lightweight that it doesn't install recommends by default.
You should report it to the maintainer of the distribution.

I'm closing this report because it's not a bug with Ubuntu.
Don't hesitate to report any new bug.