How to install synapse in Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I got lxde, and I am very new to it.I found out there were no search tool for it

I went online and found it and I did

sudo apt-get install synapse

it did not work.It says

Unable to locate package synapse

I realy want a search tool, so I can access my folder,my games on steam and minecraft (.minecraft folder)

I tried the other name too.. semantic launcher (didn't work), can someone tell me wants wrong or.. help me install another search tool?

What do you mean by "it did not want to work"? Can you share the terminal output? ALso I'm afraid there is no synapse package in Ubuntu official repositories so you are on your own try to search a thir party repository in Launchpad. — xangua, Jan 25 '15 at 17:52
xangua heres the output: 'Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package synapse' — SirCarster, Jan 25 '15 at 17:58
@SirCarster: Run sudo apt-get update and then try the installation command. — heemayl, Jan 25 '15 at 18:02
Actually packages.ubuntu.com/precise/synapse exists and is a "semantic file launcher"; however this is for precise (12.04LTS). I dont see this was ported to 14.04. Also I don't know what exactly is needed from "search tool" -- to search something in local drives? — Vladimir Kovalchuk, Jan 25 '15 at 18:05

g_p · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-20 17:13:48Z

up vote 11 down vote accepted

~~synapse is not available for Ubuntu 14.04 .~~ But you can install it by adding Synapse core team PPA.

To install synapse in Ubuntu 14.04, open terminal and type

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:synapse-core/ppa 
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install synapse

It should install synapse in your system.

synapse is now available in Ubuntu Universe repository (See here). To install it you need to enable the universe repository . Enable it using

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update

and then install synapse using

sudo apt-get install synapse

However above PPA can be used to get the latest version of synapse

answered Jan 25 '15 at 19:14

g_p

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can this be updated for 16.04? – hakermania Aug 19 '16 at 9:48

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@hakermania, It will work on 16.04 as well. – g_p Aug 20 '16 at 17:13

E: Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/synapse-core/ppa/ubuntu/dists/xenia‌l/main/binary-amd64/‌Packages  404  Not Found

but it is evidently available in universe. – Hatshepsut Oct 10 '16 at 0:26

sudo apt-get update did you run this command @Hatshepsut – Thamaraiselvam Feb 1 '17 at 5:40

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