diff --git a/app/models/person.rb b/app/models/person.rb
index 2798ac3fb..8382c9d34 100644
--- a/app/models/person.rb
+++ b/app/models/person.rb
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ class Person
      /^(https?):\/\/[a-z0-9]+([\-\.]{1}[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z]{2,5})?(:[0-9]{1,5})?(\/.*)?$/ix
 
   def self.search(query)
+    return Person.all if query.to_s.empty?
     qTokens = query.to_s.strip.split(" ")
     fullQueryText = Regexp.escape( query.to_s.strip )
     p = []
diff --git a/pkg/ubuntu/README.md b/pkg/ubuntu/README.md
index 3dd722626..ff82a4c29 100644
--- a/pkg/ubuntu/README.md
+++ b/pkg/ubuntu/README.md
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ work as a first step towards packaging, but should be usable as is.
 ### Synopsis
 
 Bootstrap the distribution from git:
-    sudo apt-get install git
+    sudo apt-get install git-core
     git clone git://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git
     cd diaspora/pkg/ubuntu
 
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ Initiate and start the server;
     ./script/server
 
 ### Upgrading
-Once diaspora ins installed ,makedist.sh et. al. are available in
-/usr/share/diaspora/master/pkg/ubuntu, so there's no need to checkout
-the stuff using git in this case.
 
 The normal procedure to update is to just
     $ sudo su - diaspora
diff --git a/pkg/ubuntu/diaspora-install-deps b/pkg/ubuntu/diaspora-install-deps
index 56caa7200..f4fd6be8b 100755
--- a/pkg/ubuntu/diaspora-install-deps
+++ b/pkg/ubuntu/diaspora-install-deps
@@ -13,8 +13,9 @@ grep -v '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list | grep -q universe || {
 }
 
 sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install -qy build-essential libxslt1-dev libxml2 ruby-full mongodb \
-     rake python-software-properties git imagemagick libmagick9-dev
+sudo apt-get install -qy --ignore-missing build-essential libxslt1-dev \
+     libxml2 ruby-full mongodb rake python-software-properties git-core \
+     imagemagick libmagick9-dev
 sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maco.m/ruby
 sudo apt-get update
 sudo apt-get install -qy rubygems
diff --git a/public/stylesheets/application.css b/public/stylesheets/application.css
index 93f2efcf0..6bacdffbb 100644
--- a/public/stylesheets/application.css
+++ b/public/stylesheets/application.css
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ li.message {
         font-weight: bold; }
     li.message .content div.info {
       color: #444444;
-      font-size: 14px; }
+      font-size: 13px; }
       li.message .content div.info a {
         color: #cccccc; }
       li.message .content div.info .time {
diff --git a/public/stylesheets/sass/application.sass b/public/stylesheets/sass/application.sass
index 1691755b3..c70992407 100644
--- a/public/stylesheets/sass/application.sass
+++ b/public/stylesheets/sass/application.sass
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ li.message
 
     div.info
       :color #444
-      :font-size 14px
+      :font-size 13px
       a
         :color #ccc
       .time