Bug#868655: gnome-software: Missing dependancy to libgnome-menu-3-0

Darthcat darthcat at free.fr
Tue Nov 28 21:26:29 UTC 2017


Le mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 07:46 +0100, Matthias Klumpp a écrit :
> 

Dear Matthias,

Thank you for your answer.
> 
> Aktually, if no metadata is available, GNOME Software will display a
> "Preparing software catalog..." panel while running an apt update in
> the background to obtain fresh data.
> Apparently, that is not working for everyone, and I haven't
> investigated yet why.
> My guess is though that people do get data from the Snappy store,
> Flatpak or the GNOME Shell extensions catalog, which makes GNOME
> Software skip the loading screen and jump right to the catalog filled
> with less applications. If that is the case, I don't know yet how to
> fix this issue without annoying sideeffects, the potentially easiest
> thing to do would be to run an apt update once when GNOME SOftware is
> first started and it finds no AppStream component with the OS vendor
> as origin_kind.
As far as I am concerned I am a strict Debian user: I didn't installed
foreign softwares and I discovered this bug just after two fresh Debian
installs.
I hope this will help you.

> Cheers,
>     Matthias

Best regards,
Philippe



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