Comment 36 for bug 705988

Fallacy of assertion and tautology. Package Manager is not a Tech Support
because you assert that it is not a tech support tool, and there is no
convincing argument in your remarks to support the assertion.

I DID give some information on the failure, spacfic info, and as much as
the tool gave me. Look at my last posting. I tried to install the ipython
package and the tool FAILED with untrusted packages and I documented as
much info as the tool gave me, which isn't enough. It could have told me
that I need to do something with the names of supposedly conflicting
packages. It does not. Do I uninstall these packages? Do I find equivalent
replacements? It does not say. It needs to and it could very easily.

I have encountered arrogance from Cannonical before, is to English
snobbery, I don't know, but i can assert that if Apple ever cuts the price
of the Mac to make it on a par with PCs, Cannonical will be put out of
business because of sloppy integration of packages, much less of a problem
of Mac OS, there is no excuse from some of the configuration problems I've
seen between versions of Ubuntu, and no excuse for your unjustified
assertion.

On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:30 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Whether a package installer is a tech support tool is irrelevant; the
> point is that this bug tracker is not a tech support tool. And the 1277
> extra words you posted still do not contain any steps to reproduce the
> problem, they have just made the report noisier. If you can't help fix
> the bug, I suggest posting to askubuntu.com instead.
>
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> 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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