Ubuntu
gnome-software package

Ubuntu Software 3.20.1 shows "install" button instead of "remove"/"launch" for recently instaled apps

Bug #1687010 reported by Vasiliy Fontanenko on 2017-04-28

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1551599: Remove button missing after package installation. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-software (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

It lives it's own life. VERY confising for a newcomer - especially for mac/windows user. This is unacceptable. This is the first and main app that newcomers deal with. For example I have recently installed VLC player via Ubuntu Software. Than I closed Ubuntu Software. I was using VLC for whole day, but when I open Ubuntu Software, it still suggests me to Install it. And this problem is not just in 16.04. I have tried Ubuntu few years ago and this problem pissed me off.

THE OTHER CASE......
Install something. Ubuntu Software shows remove/launch buttons, but only for a second! And than it hides remove/launch and shows Install again. And only after reboot it understands finally that application is already installed.

SAME PROBLEM WITH UPDATES!!!!!!!!!!
Sometimes when I open Updates tab I see many available updates, than Ubuntu Software starts convulsing like epileptic. It shows empty updates list, than many updates again, than no updates - no comments. This is SHAME.

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Vasiliy Fontanenko (vasiliy.fontanenko) wrote on 2017-04-28:

As you can see on this scrshot VLC is already installed, but Ubuntu Software still shows "Install" button Edit (558.4 KiB, image/png)

Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) on 2017-04-28

affects:

software-center (Ubuntu) → gnome-software (Ubuntu)

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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote on 2017-04-28:

Thanks for the bug report.

To report ubuntu bugs in the future, press Alt+F2 to run a command and type 'ubuntu-bug packagename'.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

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Vasiliy Fontanenko (vasiliy.fontanenko) wrote on 2017-04-28:

Thank you for useful hot key (Alt + F2) I was looking for it, but it is not visible in system settings or in [hold super]. Situation with hot keys is very complicated too. I'm starting to think that Unity desktop is not the best choice.