Re: [Tails-dev] Quick search not working in Synaptic

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Aihe: Re: [Tails-dev] Quick search not working in Synaptic
sajolida@??? wrote (29 Jun 2013 09:20:53 GMT) :
> This is surely due to the fact that apt-xapian-index is not installed in
> Tails. So, first of all, do we care about that enough to install it by
> default?


I doubt the minimal additional functionality brought by the quick
search feature is worth it.

> Second, I tried to install it and it's not usable out-of-the-box. The
> command `update-apt-xapian-index` crashed with the following error message:


> xapian.DatabaseLockError: Unable to get write lock on
> /var/cache/apt-xapian/index/index.4: Cannot allocate memory


Just curious: how much memory on the system?

> Shall I create a ticket for that or just drop the ball?


I personally would drop the ball, but I'm certainly not preventing
anyone from fixing bugs if they think it's important enough.

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