Incorrect comment for applications

[Nicolas DERIVE]

When I read the adobe reader description, it is written "Adobe Reader cannot be installed on your computer type (i386)" whereas I think that's not true. Is it a bug ?

[Christoph Wolk (spikespiegel-gmx)]

I get this for all application that are not in main; these packages also have no descriptions. They are installable without problem though.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Is this dapper or edgy? I can not reproduce this on my edgy here. Please attach /etc/apt/sources.list. Could you also please try to run "sudo apt-get update " from a terminal before runing gnome-app-install? And then runing it ("gnome-app-install") from a terminal and paste the output here.

Thanks,
 Michael

Cheers,
 Michael

[Nicolas DERIVE (kalon33)]

Apparently this has been changed in the latest versions : It's not doing that now. Fixed for me.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for checking this again and for confirming that it works now :)

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis (benjamin-hawkeslewis)]

This message is being shown to me with Adobe Reader and most other applications with current Edgy. My architecture is a Thinkpad T40 Centrino.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

@Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis:
Do you run the latest version of gnome-app-install? What does:
$ apt-cache policy acroread
output (on a terminal)?

Thanks,
 Michael

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis (benjamin-hawkeslewis)]

Michael,

I keep my system fixed with the latest Edgy updates. Normally, "apt-cache policy acroread" responds with "W: Unable to locate package acroread". Once I enable multiverse, it responds with:

"acroread:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 7.0.8-0.0.ubuntu2
  Version table:
     7.0.8-0.0.ubuntu2 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/multiverse Packages"

And it suddenly becomes available in Add/Remove Applications!

If I disable multiverse again, Add/Remove returns to the bogus message that "Adobe Reader cannot be installed on your computer type (i386). Either the application requires special hardware features or the vendor decided to not support your computer type."

[keeema (rut-tomas)]

Same problem on Edgy. On dapper ok.

[Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor)]

Does this error still appear on feisty?

[keeema (rut-tomas)]

Yes, but it isn't problem. It was only my mystake in allowing
repositories.

Sebastian Heinlein píše v Ne 05. 08. 2007 v 09:54 +0000:
> Does this error still appear on feisty?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-app-install (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Invalid
>

[Andreas Richard (andreas-richard)]

I got this message after I installed edubuntu 7.04 an a P4 Computer. I realised that only some software included in the edubuntu had been installed and tried to add it manually through application/add & remove. When I then for example click on Kalzium I get this error. Same applies for some system software. Open offcie is there, a lot of games are there, but nothing from the educational software. I'm writing from Africa and it's hard for me to access the internet. Can I download this gnome update manually and install it? I'm quite new to Linux and obviously need some basic help...