Install additional software (new user)

[suburbandisposal]

opened Synaptic and noticed the searchbar was missing

http://askubuntu.com/questions/91310/fre...e-tool-bar

after running the commands in that thread, namely sudo update-apt-xapian-index -vf,  the stock installer seems to be doing it's job again (probably also temporary)

Code:

sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index
sudo update-apt-xapian-index -vf

update: keep running into problems. At one point restricted extras wouldn't stop downloading in the stock installer so I cancelled and it said it was finished downloading anyway the next time I entered the installer. Keep getting prompted to configure dpkg

Code:

dpkg: error processing package libqt4-declarative:i386 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

will be googling this issue immediately