Updates shown for pre-installed apps which have been uninstalled

[dobey]

I have uninstalled a few of the pre-installed click apps, as I have no intention of ever using them, so don't want them to clutter up the installed apps section of the scope. However, when I go to the Updates page of System Settings, "filemanager Version 0.3.163" is shown to me as an update. If I install it, then the File Manager returns to my installed apps list, though I previously removed it. Then uninstalling it again, and going back to Updates, I am again shown the same update as being available.

Also of note is that the updates page says "filemanager" rather than "File Manager" as the app name.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Is this still the case? Not sure what layer is the culprint

[RobertZenz (robert-zenz)]

This is still the case. I'm seeing this on my bq Aquaris 4.5 with Telegram.

[Victor gonzalez (victor-gonzalez-0)]

Another french user reported the same behaviour with TG updates after being uninstalled, should we ask fr any logs about it?, if yes which ones?. We can reproduce it.

[Victor gonzalez (victor-gonzalez-0)]

forgot to mention that these users are in OTA-8 =)

[Alejandro J. Cura (alecu)]

I reproduced this bug, and can clearly see that it's a bug in click itself.

steps:
- uninstall some package that's installed in the base image (eg: telegram 1.2)
- install it back from the store (eg: telegram 2.0)
- uninstall it once more
- try to see if the package is registered for the current user with "click list"

what happens:
- the package does not show at all

what should happen:
- the old version (eg: 1.2) of the package is listed

It seems that when it's uninstalling a version that was installed from the store it's not recreating the symlink to @hidden for the base version.

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

In my case using the same steps I see 2.0.4 in click list

ls -al /opt/click.ubuntu.com/.click/users/@all/

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Nov 23 12:32 com.ubuntu.telegram -> /opt/click.ubuntu.com/com.ubuntu.telegram/2.0.4.0

 ls -l /custom/click/com.ubuntu.telegram/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Nov 11 23:20 1.3.20.114
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 11 23:20 current -> 1.3.20.114

 ls -l /custom/click/.click/users/@all
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Nov 11 23:20 com.ubuntu.telegram -> /custom/click/com.ubuntu.telegram/1.3.20.114

I am not clear why the install of 2.0.4 from the store was put in @all rather than phablet like other store installs

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

Suspect my device has cruft making it non-standard so ignore last comment