{"id":8534,"date":"2019-01-17T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8534"},"modified":"2024-05-05T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T15:16:46","slug":"enable-quick-filter-search-box-synaptic-package-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/01\/enable-quick-filter-search-box-synaptic-package-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable Quick Filter Search Box in Synaptic Package Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For those prefer installing and removing Ubuntu packages via Synaptic package manager, you must have noticed the ‘Quick filter’ search function has been replaced by a search button.<\/p>\n

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to re-enable the ‘Quick filter’ function in Synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and higher.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: The tutorial is still working in today’s Ubuntu, including Ubuntu 20.04<\/b>, Ubuntu 22.04<\/b>, Ubuntu 23.10, and Ubuntu 24.04<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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The quick filter search box is offered by ‘apt-xapian-index<\/code>‘, which is a ‘recommends’ dependency package for Synaptic. Installing synaptic via Ubuntu Software or apt command without --install-recommends<\/code> will exclude that optional dependency package.<\/p>\n

So, the solution is just install the package and re-build search engine index by doing the following steps one by one:<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Open terminal either via Ctrl+Alt+T<\/strong> keyboard shortcut or from application launcher. When it opens, run command to install apt-xapian-index<\/code>:<\/p>\n

sudo apt install apt-xapian-index<\/pre>\n
Type user password (no asterisks feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.<\/i><\/p>\n
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2.<\/b> Then rebuild the search engine index via command:<\/p>\n
sudo update-apt-xapian-index -vf<\/pre>\n
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Finally open or re-open<\/strong> Synaptic package manager, and you’ll see the search box back. Unfortunately for perfectionist, the original ‘Search’ button seems not easy to be removed from tool-bar.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For those prefer installing and removing Ubuntu packages via Synaptic package manager, you must have noticed the ‘Quick filter’ search function has been replaced by a search button. This quick tutorial is going to show you how to re-enable the ‘Quick filter’ function in Synaptic package manager in Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and higher. UPDATE: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[314,1629,1628],"class_list":["post-8534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-synaptic","tag-synaptic-quick-filter","tag-synaptic-search-box"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}