Please Include Package Names

Bug #1825708 reported by Lonnie Lee Best
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This bug affects 11 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Software
Fix Released
Unknown
gnome-software (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Gnome-Software does not include a software package's name in the details section of each software it catalogs and I want this to be added for the following reasons.

1) When submitting bug reports and feature requests, it is necessary to know the package name. When I use gnome-software to install a piece of software, I expect to be able to go back to gnome-software to discover software's package name. Since it doesn't include this pertinent detail, I'm having to use a number of command to discover it.

2) Although I use gnome-software to discover available software, I always like to collect that software's package name, so I can add to my "sudo apt install" list, so that when I set up my computer from scratch, I can use one command to reinstall all the software packages I've installed previously.

These are my two reason, but I'm sure others have more. The bottom line is, the package name is a very pertinent piece of information that gnome-software should include in the details section of each software it catalogs. Look at what is in the details section right now. Hardly any of those details are anything I'll ever be interested in, but the package name is VERY pertinent to me.

Please add this.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04
Package: gnome-software 3.30.6-2ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-13.14-generic 5.0.6
Uname: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Apr 21 05:03:55 2019
InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-01-07 (103 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180731)
InstalledPlugins:
 gnome-software-plugin-flatpak N/A
 gnome-software-plugin-snap 3.30.6-2ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-software
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to disco on 2019-04-21 (0 days ago)

Revision history for this message
Lonnie Lee Best (launchpad-startport) wrote :
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-software:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in gnome-software (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in gnome-software:
status: New → Fix Released
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