Behavior change #2 in Synaptic

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Nope, in my case it's the button with magnifying glass.  But still it seems
similar, and was solved the same way.  Thanks.

On Sat, Jan 7, 2017 at 1:00 PM, jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 01/07/2017 02:05 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> I was reminded by another post here that there's been a change that
>> bothered me when I went from 14.04 LTS to 16.04.
>>
>> I seem to remember that if I was displaying, for instance, installed
>> packages, then if I further did a search, the search applied only to those
>> installed packages, not the entire universe.  As things now stand, my
>> search results are often so numerous that it's very hard to locate the
>> things I'm really interested in.
>>
>>
>>
>>
> Kevin,
>
> I think you are referring to a thread I started. It looks like you are
> seeing the same thing I saw. Here is sktsee's answer to me.
>
> <quote>
> Are you referring to the "Quick Filter" box or the "Search for
> Packages" (button with magnifying glass) search? If its the former you
> need to make sure that you've installed the apt-xapian-index package in
> order to get the "Quick Filter" box to show up in Synaptic.
> </quote>
>
> Once I did that and the Quick Filter box appeared then a search in
> installed, from the Quick Filter box, would only return results from
> installed.
>
> Regards,  Jim
>
>
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