Ubuntu
software-center package

cannot install anything

Bug #796385 reported by Nicholas Salatino on 2011-06-13

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #785117: [MASTER] silently fails to install software after PolicyKit error. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-center (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

When I click install On anything, the button turns greyed for a second then goes back to normal and nothing happens. I am using Ubuntu 11.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 4.0.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 12 20:17:50 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Nicholas Salatino (nsalatino1) wrote on 2011-06-13:

Dependencies.txt Edit (7.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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S H (cybermama) wrote on 2011-06-17:

I had this same problem and I just found the answer here

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-226877.html

Once I removed the bad package, install worked again.

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Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote on 2011-08-07:

Hi Nicholas! Thanks for your bug report. We are tracking this issue over at bug 785117. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!