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software-center package

  1. Bug #499937
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 499937

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Lance Jarvis (ldjarvis) wrote : Re: click install, nothing happens, in software center if policykit auth agent not running

I installed 10.04 and shortly thereafter had this same problem with programs not being able to be installed (or presumably removed) and several other authorisation related problems as well. After much stress I found that the Policykit agent set to run on startup was a KDE one. The problem appears to have been solved by creating a new start up entry (System-Preferences-Startup Applications) to run the GNOME policy kit as Daniel wrote above (2010-03-02) and switching off the KDE one. I guess KDE and GNOME versions are not entirely compatible and appear to not be interchangable. It seems to be working for me. Hopefully this will help others.