Removing software isn't working

[Sheryl Westleigh]

Binary package hint: software-center

The new software center isn't removing software when I click the "remove button". It just seems to do nothing. I needed to remove Banshee to see if reinstalling would fix a problem. Tried uninstalling a few other unrelated programs just to see if it would let me and it doesn't. I'm not very tech savvy so other means of removing software on Ubuntu are a little over my head.

Recently upgraded to 9.10

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 30 03:03:11 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: software-center 1.0.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: software-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[WeatherGod (ben-v-root)]

I might be wrong about this (I don't have 9.10 in front of me) but the "Remove" button marks a package to remove. This way, you can select multiple programs, and then click on Apply or something like that to start the removal process.

[Xenomorph05 (xenomorph-5)]

I can not remove currently installed software and I can not install software with the Software Center. I can use the Synaptic Package Manager though. I even tried reinstalling the Software Center. Also it does not load the images for the software either.

[WeatherGod (ben-v-root)]

I cannot reproduce this problem. I have been able to install and remove software just fine. It is interesting that it does not load images for you. What are your software sources? Maybe it is a malfunctioning mirror?

[Xenomorph05 (xenomorph-5)]

I have tried my Canada mirror, the main mirror, I had it check for the best mirror and tried it too. None work. It always takes a few minutes for the program to tell me that it can't get the images and anytime I press install or remove they don't do a single thing. It says "No Screenshot available" regardless which programs I pick. It does tell me 2181 items are available.

[Xenomorph05 (xenomorph-5)]

Update: I can now see images in the Software Center but I can not install or remove anything.

[WeatherGod (ben-v-root)]

Xenomorph05, I learned an additional detail that might help you. Start up the synaptic package manager, and then click on "Refresh". The refresh step might be thing that gets things working again.

[Andrew (and471)]

Please run software-center in a terminal and paste the ouput here when you try and remove an app
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[[e-mail] (catharina-m-top)]

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[Omer Akram (om26er)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!