Synaptic question

[Bart Silverstrim]

Florian Diesch wrote:
> Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Bart,
>>
>> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>>> Quick question - is there a difference between the apt database and the 
>>> one used by Synaptic? I updated a fresh install, did the downloads, 
>>> changed the software sources to match what my other workstation had, but 
>>> when I did a "quick search" for openssh-server on the new one it didn't 
>>> appear. My other workstation did have it appear.
>> I've just started up Synaptic and above the search window it said
>> 'rebuilding search index' and after about a minute this changed to
>> 'Quick search'.
>>
>> So I think it uses the same database of packages but it may use a
>> difference search index. I've no idea how to force it to update this.
> 
> 'Quick search' uses another index (a fulltext index created by
> update-apt-xapian-index) than the plain "Search" (which uses the
> regular APT index)

I just did a search and according to synaptic, update-apt-xapian-index 
was already installed :-(