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software-center package

  1. Bug #499937
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 499937

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Phill (phill.l) wrote : Re: click install, nothing happens, in software center

Can confirm - install and remove buttons do nothing. Clean install of Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64 with latest patches to date. Running with the one and only user account created on installation with admin rights. When run from the command line the following message is displayed in the terminal:

WARNING:root:_on_trans_error: org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.NotAuthorized: ('system-bus-name', {'name': ':1.75'}) is not authorized: org.debian.apt.install-packages

Running from terminal with 'sudo' solves the problem, but it's a bug that it doesn't work from the menu.

NOTE: I don't think it's the only application to suffer from this, a few things in the adminstrator menu seem to have lost their 'dksu' command (e.g. Hardware Drivers) , although a few have gained in-built unlock functions but not all have this and they don't work from the menus. I'm fairly sure these things work immediately after install before the first update.