Software Center/Discover - how to use search

[dogugotw]

I feel like I'm missing something. I just installed Kubuntu 16.04 LTS and am getting re-antiquated with the environment after several years away in Windows-land.
When I open the Software Center/Discover system i see a search bar. If I type in anything, the name of an already installed app or one I want to install, I always get no hits. It doesn't matter if I'm at the top level or if I drill down into one of the sub-categories; for instance, I have Firefox installed but search fails to return that if I search at the top level or in the 'Internet' category.

What am I doing wrong here?

Thanks for the assist.

Doug

[GreyGeek]

.... What am I doing wrong here?
Doug

Using the wrong tool. Discovery is not quite up to primetime, IMO. It is slow and laggy unless you are running VINNY's computer.
Fetching and displaying pictures is unnecessary, and it slows the app down considerably.

Muon, KDE's normal GUI package manager, has a problem doing more than one search without having to close and restart the app. Until that gets fixed I've install Synaptic and use it.

[TWPonKubuntu]

We antiquated types are well acquainted with the muon/discover problem.

GreyGeek's solution (antiquated though it be) is excellent.

Sorry, the grammar police are watching over my shoulder...

[dogugotw]

Thank you both. I'll start with Synaptic and see how that works.

[wizard10000]

GreyGeek's solution (antiquated though it be) is excellent.

Probably an unpopular opinion but I've tried hard to like muon, I really have. When it was first released I thought it was awful although I will admit it's less awful now than it was four or five years ago

synaptic does about 99% of my gooey package management tasks.

[GreyGeek]

Muon got good enough to use in 14.04. The only problem I have with it is the search function failure. Get that fixed and I'll revert to it immediately, because I want to minimize the presence of GTK+ on my system


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[Rod J]

Discover works fine here in K16.04.1. I can do several searches without problems, it's a little slow but I think that's more to do with my slowish internet.

However, like most others here I prefer the standard Muon package manager which I've always used in K14.04 but oddly here in K16.04 it's search function doesn't work as others have said. Odd, I never noticed it wasn't working before.

Edit: The search in Muon seems to work the first time but not after the first search.