Gnome Software catalog entry missing for Gqrx

[AsciiWolf]

The Gqrx package cannot be installed using the Gnome Software application because it's missing the needed metadata.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

http://appstream.ubuntu.com/xenial/universe/issues/gqrx-sdr.html

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

https://github.com/csete/gqrx/blob/master/resources/icons/gqrx.svg
Here is the missing icon file.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gqrx-sdr/+bug/1603756
Related bugreport.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Fixed in Debian (2.5.3-4).

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Fixed in Yakkety.

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

Any chance the fix will be backported to Xenial?

[Fabiano Bovo (bovo-fabiano)]

For Xenial:

Download the icon at https://github.com/csete/gqrx/blob/master/resources/icons/gqrx.svg

save it in /usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps

edit /usr/share/applications/gqrx.desktop
 correcting the line:
   Icon=gqrx.svg (must match the filename)

[AsciiWolf (asciiwolf)]

@bovo-fabiano: That doesn't fix the problem with GNOME Software (Ubuntu Software). By the way, I think you don't need to edit the desktop file, but you must put the icon file in the right directory (/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/).