Hello Paddy. Thank you very much for your bug report and for taking the
time to include so much detailed information. Unfortunately, it's
difficult to track/manage a bug when there are actually multiple
separate bugs contained in a single report. Would you mind opening a
separate bug for each issue? Of course, you just need cut and paste the
detailed information that you've already provided.
Once you do that, we can close this one and then triage/work on the
issues separately.
Thank you for your help!
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Incomplete
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Title:
Ubuntu Software Centre (USC) has a few problems with displaying
applications
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
The "Installed" tab of Ubuntu Software Centre (USC) has a few problems
with displaying applications.
*A* SHOW OR HIDE TECHNICAL ITEMS
1. Go to the Installed tab of USC. Type "libreoffice" into the search bar.
You get a number of items, with a prompt at the bottom of the bar to "Show 20
technical items".
2. Now select the down-arrow and select Canonical Partners, For Purchase, or
Unknown. Although the screen goes blank, the "Show 20 technical items" (or
"Hide 20 technical items" if you have selected it) continues to show. This is
confusing.
*B* DISPLAYING ITEMS AVAILABLE OR INSTALLED FROM ELSEWHERE IN THE MAIN
TAB ("All Software")
Consider an item available from non-Canonical repositories, e.g. yad
(ppa:webupd8team/y-ppa-manager) or Oracle's Virtual Box Guest
Additions (direct from the Oracle website).
If the item is not yet installed (e.g. yad), USC simply does not
display it:
1. In USC, go to the "All Software" tab.
2. Type yad into the search bar.
3. Only Yade displays. It should also display yad. (It can be seen in
Synaptic Package Manager.)
4. Fascinatingly, if you install (see next point) and then uninstall yad, USC
will display it even after restarting.
*C* DISPLAYING ITEMS AVAILABLE OR INSTALLED FROM ELSEWHERE IN THE
INSTALLED TAB ("Installed")
If the item is already installed, there can be inconsistent results.
Example 1 (using yad):
1. Install yad (through the terminal or Synaptic Package Manager, as you
cannot do it through USC).
2. In USC, go to the "Installed" tab and enter "yad". Nothing displays; it
should show yad. It will display only if you select the down-arrow and choose
the appropriate PPA Manager. I would expect the default to show everything
installed.
Example 2 (using Oracle's Virtual Box Guest Additions when running
from Virtual Box):
(Actually, you can replicate this in a system that is not running in a
Virtual Box, omitting steps 1 & 2.)
1. Run Ubuntu in a Virtual Box (the latest one available from virtualbox.org).
2. Install the Extension Pack (i.e. Guest Additions).
3. Open USC and go to the "Installed" tab.
4. Enter "virtualbox guest" into the search bar. Nothing shows.
5. Select the down-arrow and choose any item, e.g. "Canonical Partners",
"Unknown".
6. The "thinking" circle (sorry, I don't know its name) in the window turns
around and around, and nothing else happens even when leaving for several
minutes. It should display either nothing or the installed package.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.14.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-21.34-generic 3.2.13
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-21-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 3 11:29:51 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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