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software-center package

  1. Bug #869683
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 869683

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Nolan Darilek (nolan-thewordnerd) wrote :

Got bitten by this last night.

I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my girlfriend's computer, and practically the first thing we did on the new system was to hit up http://chrome.google.com to download the latest 32-bit Chrome. We had it open in Software Center automatically, but it failed to install due to missing dependencies.

I did fix this by downloading it manually and installing it via dpkg/apt-get, but my GF shouldn't need someone with 15 years of experience on Debian-based systems to fix something right out the gate. Software Center should have done the equivalent of "apt-get -f install" when it opened Chrome.

This should be easy to duplicate:

1. Install Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit for a fully identical system, but perhaps 64-bit would work too.
2. Immediately after first login, fire up Firefox and download Google Chrome. Have it open in Software Center.
3. Watch it fail.

But once all dependencies are installed, it works fine. I'm running it without issue on my laptop.

Thanks.