On an upgrade from Hardy to Jaunty (via Intrepid) I found out that package apt-xapian-index was not installed.
Installing it solved this problem for me. After installing it, an indexing task started automatically, which progress is shown by issuing: sudo update-apt-xapian-index. Upon completion of the indexing, the quick search in Synaptic became usable -- [Intrepid] Synaptic unusable - Can not find packages https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/288797 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
