** Attachment added: "20130130-software-center-steam-install.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1110188/+attachment/3507232/+files/20130130-software-center-steam-install.log
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1110188 Title: Software Center removed half my system Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: I downloaded steam_latest.deb from steampowered.com, saved it, double clicked on it, and Software Center launched. It brought up the deb information page, I clicked Install, and Software Center proceeded to remove literally about half of the installed pacakges on my system (about 400), including things like unity, ubuntu-desktop, and, ironically, software-center itself. It eventually errored out (see attached log). Using /var/log/apt/history.log, I was able to restore the system's packages to their previous state, but Software Center shouldn't have allowed this to happen (whether or not the third-party .deb was actually at fault). NB: To correct the apt error, I did "apt-get -f install". Then, after I apt-get installed the packages which were removed, steam was still installed, so it wasn't a dependency error which caused the packages to be removed. I have no idea why it actually happened. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: software-center 5.4.1.3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-21.32-generic 3.5.7.1 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu10 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jan 30 00:53:19 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-06-14 (230 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MarkForUpload: True PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-16 (136 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1110188/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
