Personal File Sharing Preferences Doesn't Work Out of the Box, With No Indication on How to Make it Work

[Rich Jones]

Tried to turn on Personal File Sharing, was faced with this message:

"This feature cannot be enabled because the required packages are not installed on your system."

What does that mean? What do I need to install? This should either a) be installed by default - why have this in the menu and not have it work, b) give me the ability to install it, c) at least tell me what I need to install on my own.

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/yy2bt.png

[Chris Wilson (notgary-deactivatedaccount)]

Thanks a lot for reporting this as a papercut, but I have marked it as invalid as it requests the installation of additional packages that are not included in the default installation of Ubuntu. For more information on what counts as a papercut, please see here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut#What%20is%20a%20paper%20cut?

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

That's not really true. The bug is that the useless message appears in the first place. Installing the required packages is just one of the possible solutions to the bug.

The real reason this is not a papercut is that gnome-user-share is not installed by default. This is also a duplicate.