Ubuntu – Unity dash: Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search

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I face with problem

Sorry, there is nothing that matches your search

When searching in applications. However searching within files or musics etc is ok. Just applications are not found. it even does not try to find anything. No matter what you search, No app at all.

unity dash nothing that matches your search

Here there is a list of my attempts:

sudo apt-get install unity-scope-home
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
unity-scope-home is already the newest version.
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.

No effect.

sudo apt-get install unity-place-applications unity-place-files
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package unity-place-applications
E: Unable to locate package unity-place-files

No hope

rm ~/.cache -R
unity --reset &

Result:

[1] 5355
me@mypc:~$ ERROR: the reset option is now deprecated

still not working even by logout/login.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

No!

sudo apt-get install unity-scope-home unity-scope-loader
[sudo] password for me: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package unity-scope-loader

No!

sudo apt-get install --reinstall unity-scope-home
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 1 to reinstall, 0 to remove and 0 not to upgrade.
Need to get 0 B/105 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 565848 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../unity-scope-home_6.8.2+14.04.20131029.1-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking unity-scope-home (6.8.2+14.04.20131029.1-0ubuntu1) over (6.8.2+14.04.20131029.1-0ubuntu1) ...
Setting up unity-scope-home (6.8.2+14.04.20131029.1-0ubuntu1) ...

No effect!

Edit:

I checked and realized that even other user accounts have the same problem.

Best Answer

E: Unable to locate package unity-place-applications

E: Unable to locate package unity-place-files

unity-place-applications and unity-place-files are no more available in Ubuntu 14.04 instead use unity-lens-applications and unity-lens-files which is founded in universe repository, so first enable it(if it's disabled for some reason else skip it to the last command)

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) universe"

Now update software sources

sudo apt-get update

Now you can install it :

sudo apt-get install unity-lens-applications

sudo apt-get install unity-lens-files
Try to do this: mkdir local.OLD mkdir gnome.OLD mv .local/share/applications/*.desktop local.OLD/ mv .gnome/apps/*.desktop gnome.OLD/ Then logout, login and check the result now.
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