Public bug reported:
Gnome Software doesn't immediately update after updating the system
repositories, even after application restart. This results in
application versions and other details being listed correctly, even
though the correct version will be downloaded correctly.
Description:
No, that doesn't appear to be the issue. A message appears at the bottom
of the screen with a red background saying that I can't install the .deb
because it isn't free software. Same thing for applications that *may*
have non-free software.
It also doesn't list (what I assume to be) non-free
Public bug reported:
Gnome Software may get stuck getting software details and will just
display things such as "calculating package size". It is still possible
to download and install the software.
Description:Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release:16.04
gnome-software:
Installed:
Public bug reported:
Gnome Software doesn't allow non-free software to be installed, even if
installing directly by the .deb file, such as Steam. It may also refuse
to install if it the package *may* contain non-free software.
Description:Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release:16.04
I'm not sure which update you'are talking about.
Looks like this particular bug has been fixed as I can now install the
Vivaldi browser via gnome-software, however it doesn't have a launch
button after install? Not sure what's up with that.
If your talking about not being able to find non-free
Public bug reported:
Gnome Software re-prompts removal of software, even though the software
was just removed. Clicking on remove again may either result in the
software being displayed as not installed correctly or say that the
removal had failed.
To reproduce, hit "remove" on any installed
I'm not an expert on these things or even very knowledgeable about Linux
in general, but based on my own personal experience that does seem to be
the case. All of these bugs(including the one you linked):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1577253
Seriously, what the actual fuck?
This bug(and others!) was reported 3 goddamn years ago and you people
are still resurrecting it by adding useless tags that in no shape or
form help the problem getting solved. If you have no interest in
actually fixing the issue then mark it as "won't fix" and
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1809407 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1809407
>Aside from anything else, JournalErrors.txt above is showing this bug
is from Nvidia driver version 364.19 which doesn't seem to have ever
been officially released so is not supported:
It was from the
