This is what the Details" said just now when I tried to install ipython

libjs-jquery-ui libjs-mathjax python-decorator python-simplegeneric
python-zmq

And no indication of what I am to do. This is hardly a way to run a distro
that is billed as a Windows or Mac replacement.


On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Bruce Salem <email address hidden> wrote:

> 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)
>>
>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/705988/+subscriptions
>>
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