gnome-panel menu entry for software-center is missing

[apai]

Binary package hint: software-center

after upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, the menu for software center is missing

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Nov 7 11:00:04 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: software-center 1.0.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: software-center
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Paul van Genderen (paulvg)]

I can confirm this. Ubuntu software center is installed, but it doesn't show up in any menu.

[Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)]

This affected me in Karmic, I've upgraded to Lucid and still no software-center present.

[Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)]

where the Software center menu should be I see the Add/remove applications showing instead.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report. do you use the GNOME environment? where is the entry not listed? in the application menu? do you get the issue in a guest session too? Can you add your /etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu to the bug?

[Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)]

Checked under guest account it is also missing from there also, attaching file as requested also.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

do you have a file /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-software-center.desktop installed?

[Laura Czajkowski (czajkowski)]

attaching log as requested

[eagano (developer1)]

I had the exactly same problem after upgrading from 9.04 to 9.10. The software center was installed but it was not showing up on any menus. I didn't even know it existed until I did a clean install of 9.10 on a new machine.

I found that I had an old version of
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
and upon upgrade the new version was installed as
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu.dpkg-dist

I saved off the old version, moved the new dpkg-dist version into place, and the software center showed up immediately (along with more changes to Applications/Games menus and probably some others).

I upgraded a long time ago, and probably responded 'keep the old version' during the package install. I'm not sure what had been changed in my original 9.04 applications.menu to prompt the question.

Hope this helps!
Mike

[Paul van Genderen (paulvg)]

Why invalid? ucf shouldn't argue that the user changed the desktop file when the user hasn't.

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