Application Installer doesn't start

[Alexander Dietz]

The problem arised around a week ago. Application Installer window opens, the
cursor is still running, but the Application Installer doesnt show me the
applications. Waiting for quite long, but nothing happens. The only thing I can
do is to switch to "Advanced" (Synaptic PM) or Close the Application Installer.

If I start gnome-app-install from the Terminal Command Line, I get following
message:

alex@alex:~$ gnome-app-install
Got badly sized icon for gnome-settings-default-applications
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 125, in idle
    self.updateCache()
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 144, in updateCache
    self.populate_menu()
  File "/usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py", line 242, in populate_menu
    import locale ; menu.setLocale(locale.getlocale(locale.LC_MESSAGES)[0])
AttributeError: Menu instance has no attribute 'setLocale'

[terminatux (plandres)]

the problem appeared after an upgrade so i think that if you tryied to downgrade
it it would ameliorate it.If you succeed tell me i'm interested...

[Alexander Dietz (aledie)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> the problem appeared after an upgrade so i think that if you tryied to downgrade
> it it would ameliorate it.If you succeed tell me i'm interested...

Which packages/how do I have to downgrade? I had backports added to
repositories, so my synaptic
was ver. 0.56. Gnome-app-install had a standard version. I disabled the
universe/multiverse/
security updates and backports repositories and reinstalled following applications:

gnome-menus
libgnome-menu0
update-manager
update-notifier
synaptic
gnome-app-install
gnome-icon-theme

I am not sure, which other packages could cause the problem. I also have Smeg 0.7.4
installed. Could it be the problem? Or is there any other packages to downgrade?

[Ross Burton (ross)]

*** Bug 18158 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Ross Burton (ross)]

It appears there has been an API change in PyXDG.

[Alexander Dietz (aledie)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> It appears there has been an API change in PyXDG.

Thank you. I had an older version of Smeg Menu editor installed. I think, a week
ago a new version of Smeg 0.7.4 was added to the Ubuntu backports, so Synaptic
updated this package and also upgraded Python-xdg from v.0.9.1 to
v.0.14-0ubuntu1-5.04ubp1. Now, I just downgraded Python-xdg, what also removed
Smeg. Now the problem doesnt persist anymore, I can open gnome-app-install again.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

This is fixed with the upload of gnome-app-install_0+20050404a-3.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Ross, I commited the fix to cvs:
Checking in src/AppInstall.py;
/cvs/gnome/gnome-app-install/src/AppInstall.py,v <-- AppInstall.py
new revision: 1.3; previous revision: 1.2

I hope that's ok with you.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Ross Burton (ross)]

*** Bug 18224 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[n0tepad (josh-horne)]

i downgraded (!) the said packages and now my system tells me i have 2 available
updates. will these 2 packages be fixed so as to not cause this issue in the
near future? how do i tell the system not to consider these packages for
upgrading (until newer ones which dont cause this issue are released)?

[Mário Vrablanský (vrablansky)]

(In reply to comment #9)
> i downgraded (!) the said packages and now my system tells me i have 2 available
> updates. will these 2 packages be fixed so as to not cause this issue in the
> near future? how do i tell the system not to consider these packages for
> upgrading (until newer ones which dont cause this issue are released)?
>
>

In Synaptic click on the package.
Then menu Package --> Lock version

[bier444 (bier444)]

Created an attachment (id=2836)
the patched and compiled version of gnome-app-install to solve the smeg-problem

smeg vs. 0.7.4 and python-xdg crash gnome-app-install in ubuntu hoary. this new
version solves the problem.
see the file install.txt for installation!

[bier444 (bier444)]

Created an attachment (id=2870)
updated version of the gnome-app-install tool vs. 3

[bier444 (bier444)]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Created an attachment (id=2870) [edit]
> updated version of the gnome-app-install tool vs. 3
>

(In reply to comment #12)
> Created an attachment (id=2870) [edit]
> updated version of the gnome-app-install tool vs. 3
>

[bier444 (bier444)]

updated install script:

/********************************************************/
#!/bin/sh
# install-gai.sh, vs. 02, beta state
# developed by <email address hidden>

install -m 755 ./src/gnome-app-install /usr/bin/gnome-app-install

mkdir /usr/lib/gnome-app-install 2>/dev/null
install -m 644 ./src/AppInstall.py /usr/lib/gnome-app-install/AppInstall.py

cp ./po/es.gmo /usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-app-install.mo
cp ./po/de.gmo /usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-app-install.mo
cp ./po/el.gmo /usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-app-install.mo
cp ./po/da.gmo /usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-app-install.mo
cp ./po/pl.gmo /usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-app-install.mo
cp ./po/fr.gmo /usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-app-install.mo

mkdir -p /usr/share/glib-2.0/gettext/po 2>/dev/null
cp ./po/Makefile.in.in /usr/share/glib-2.0/gettext/po/

mkdir /usr/share/applications 2>/dev/null
cp ./data/gnome-app-install.desktop /usr/share/applications/

mkdir /usr/share/gnome-app-install 2>/dev/null
cp ./data/gnome-app-install.glade /usr/share/gnome-app-install/

cp ./menu-data/*desktop /usr/share/gnome-app-install/
cp ./menu-data/*png /usr/share/gnome-app-install/
cp ./menu-data/*xpm /usr/share/gnome-app-install/
cp ./menu-data/applications.menu /usr/share/gnome-app-install/

/********************************************************/

[markkanen (markus-markkanen-seamk)]

Hi there!
I have same problem with gnome-app-install. I did fresh install of ubuntu 8.10 and after a few hour installing various packages with gnome-app-install and synaptics, gnome-app-install failed to work. However after removing nvidia restricted driver gnome-app-install was working again. Then after nvidia driver reinstall, gnome-app-install doesn't work.