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From: Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Synaptic filter serious bugs
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 17:30:04 +0100
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On 03/17/2016 07:42 AM, Rastko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When browsing through Synaptic custom filters,
>
> the right-hand side didn't reflect the selection on the left.
>
> (eg. same checkbox set for diffrent filter name selection)
>
> When i clicked OK, the filter actually changed to what was
> displayed, but that was completely wrong!
>
> After selecting a few of them to figure out if it will become
> sane again, the program crashed.
>
> Also, when selecting the "Set Internal Option", the program
> always crashes.
>
> This is a very concerning behavior of a program like a
> package manager. Something's horribly wrong here.

Doing this seems to cure various synaptic woes ...for me It's worth a 
shot and the worst thing that can happen is that you will have a nice 
permanent search bar enabled. Let us know if this helps. Ric


sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index && sudo update-apt-xapian-index -vf
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