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software-center package

  1. Bug #1045186
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1045186

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: software-center crashed with AuthorizationFailed in _run_transaction(): org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.Failed: ('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.90'}): org.debian.apt.install-or-remove-packages

The log is actually a red-herring.

I think this bug is really that there is no policykit agent running. Software-center could try to start one,
but it really should be the job of either policykit or the desktop environment to do that.