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

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Author: sajolida
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Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Quick search not working in Synaptic
On 29/06/13 11:24, intrigeri wrote:
> 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?


That was a VM with 1 GB. I tried again on a laptop with 1 GB as well and
it worked. Maybe I did something else wrong the first time.

>> 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.


I don't think it is either. So yes, let's drop the ball unless someone
volunteers.