How can a package installer not be a tech support tool? If it weren't for
it your users could not add and remove packages, so to that end its
function is essentially a tech support tool. I appreciate you pointing our
that I could find out which packages pose problems and hopefully there is a
suggestion in these details that I may need to add/remove packages even if
i need to use a more powerful tool like Synaptic Package Manager or the
sudo apt-get command.

My point wasn't that I couldn't find may way around these and other
problems, it is that having install configurations that are a fragile as
what I have been seeing of late is a show-stopper for Ubuntu and other
Linices that want to compete for market share from Windows and Mac OSX,
especially since the latter is UNIX and does not have these sorts of
problem often or for very long.

Another vexing thing is the I have learned to use Synaptic for more than
just installing packages, especially when the Software Center GUI doesn't
tell you where it installed things. Because man pages are often not up to
date or accurate, I have had to use it to find out where libs and docs live
that the Software Center does not say when it installs a package. This is a
problem for technical packages. The reason I care is that I can't find
Synaptic
 in my 14.04 install. It is in 12.04, so given what the Software Center
doesn't do, that is a regression.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden>
wrote:

> bsalem, if you had read the comment I was replying to, you'd know that
> the "Details" expander does show the list of offending packages. But
> that by itself does not comprise steps to reproduce the problem. I
> appreciate your frustration, but this is not a tech support system, it
> is a bug tracker. A bug tracker is a system for helping developers make
> the best use of their time. And in general, developer time is better
> used fixing the many bugs that already have steps to reproduce, than
> trying to find ways to reproduce bugs that do not.
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a
> duplicate bug report (774393).
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705988
>
> Title:
>   [master] Untrusted packages can not be installed
>
> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
>   Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
>   Binary package hint: software-center
>
>   This is the master bug report for software-center not being able to
>   install untrusted packages.
>
>   The precise error message can be seen in the screenshot attached and is
> as follows:
>   "Requires installation of untrusted packages
>   The action would require the installation of packages from not
> authenticated sources."
>
>   The error dialog only has an 'ok' button which aborts the installation
>   and has no option to trust the source.
>
>   ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>   WORK AROUNDS:
>
>   1. Use terminal: sudo apt-get install package-name-here
>
>   2. Go to Ubuntu Software Centre > Edit > Software Sources, Download
>   from: Change to Main Server or try a different server.
>
>   3. Go to Ubuntu Software Centre > Edit > Software Sources, open the
>   second tab "Other Software" and uncheck the Canonical Partners (Source
>   Code)
>
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