No easy way to resolve conflicts

[Mike]

software-center 3.0.7, Ubuntu 10.10

I had VirtualBox 3.2 (commercial, not OSE) installed. I've downloaded 4.0, and executed the package so that Software Center opens it. It greyed out the "install" button and only said it conflicts with 3.2 Virtualbox. I resolved it manually by uninstalling VirtualBox in the terminal via apt-get, but there is no obvious easy way to resolve the issue in Software Center itself.

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#installing>: "When you request to install a software item: ... 6. The item should be installed with the standard interface."

<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations#installing>: "When a package installation is requested: 1. If the package conflicts with installed packages, a confirmation alert should appear: “{title} can’t be installed unless these items are removed:”..."

See also bug 934587.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Thanks for the report, Mike.

I should draw up a proper design for this, but I think the solution will be an alert box the same as the one for removing dependencies <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter?action=AttachFile&do=view&target=remove-depended-alert.jpg>, just with slightly different primary text: "{Title} can’t be installed unless these items are removed:".

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Specification updated. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwarePackageOperations?action=diff&rev2=15&rev1=14>