software center is not able to find many server packages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The software center search function is not able to find server related packages.
For example you can give "apache2" to the search field and see that there will come up no hits.
Or try "phpmyadmin" for database administration.
This can be done with all packages that goes in a more administrativ/
So, in moment software-center is for those people not a alternative to synaptic package manager, which has a much more advanced search function, or command line.
You can see this as wish and mark as such.
Stack trace showing a xapian error in the attached SoftwareCenterL
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
softwarecen
File "/usr/lib/
_xapian.
DatabaseOpening
2012-07-16 13:35:50,377 - softwarecenter.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
softwarecen
File "/usr/lib/
_xapian.
DatabaseOpening
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: software-center 5.3.4
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-4-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.3-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jul 16 13:40:47 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120715.1)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no username)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Invalid → New |
tags: | added: precise |
Hello mechaiaros, and thank you for your report. I actually just tried this myself and I cannot reproduce what you are seeing. For both search cases, I see the correct result appear in the list.
However, looking at your attached SoftwareCenterL og.txt, I can see the following error reported. This would explain why searching for software items will not work correctly. Does the problem persist after you stop and restart Software Center?
Traceback (most recent call last): software- center/ softwarecenter/ db/database. py", line 183, in _get_new_xapiandb ter.paths. APT_XAPIAN_ INDEX_DB_ PATH) python2. 7/dist- packages/ xapian/ __init_ _.py", line 3666, in __init__ Database_ swiginit( self,_xapian. new_Database( *args)) Error: Couldn't stat '/var/lib/ apt-xapian- index/index' (No such file or directory) db.database - ERROR - failed to add apt-xapian-index software- center/ softwarecenter/ db/database. py", line 183, in _get_new_xapiandb ter.paths. APT_XAPIAN_ INDEX_DB_ PATH) python2. 7/dist- packages/ xapian/ __init_ _.py", line 3666, in __init__ Database_ swiginit( self,_xapian. new_Database( *args)) Error: Couldn't stat '/var/lib/ apt-xapian- index/index' (No such file or directory)
File "/usr/share/
softwarecen
File "/usr/lib/
_xapian.
DatabaseOpening
2012-07-16 13:35:50,377 - softwarecenter.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/
softwarecen
File "/usr/lib/
_xapian.
DatabaseOpening