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regarding gnome-software: empty UI (no packages), nothing to do
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Package: gnome-software
Version: 3.22.5-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Installing gnome-software on top of a reasonably fresh testing install
via the d-i beta RC1; using XFCE desktop via task-xfce-desktop. Upon
launch, the GNOME Software window appears, with the
"All/Installed/Updates" buttons, and "Editor's Picks" heading, but
nothing else: no software, no highlights, no "update package list"
buttons, nothing on stderr.
I imagine I'm missing some button or process to fetch metadata, perhaps
it's in a hidden GTK3+ menu bar? (I seem to recall reading that
GTK3/GNOME3 has some kind of OSX-like combined menubar, or something,
perhaps that doesn't appear properly in the XFCE environment?)
But as things stand this package is essentially unusable in this
configuration.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii appstream 0.10.6-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.26.0-2
ii gnome-software-common 3.22.5-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.22.0-1
ii libappstream-glib8 0.6.8-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.22.0-1
ii libc6 2.24-9
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.8-1
ii libcairo2 1.14.8-1
ii libenchant1c2a 1.6.0-11+b1
ii libfwupd1 0.7.4-2
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.36.4-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.50.2-2
ii libgnome-desktop-3-12 3.22.2-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.22.7-2
ii libgtkspell3-3-0 3.0.9-1
ii libgudev-1.0-0 230-3
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.2.2-1
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.1.5-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.40.3-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.40.3-3
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.105-17
ii libsecret-1-0 0.18.5-2
ii libsoup2.4-1 2.56.0-2
ii libsqlite3-0 3.16.2-2
ii packagekit 1.1.5-1
ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-1
gnome-software recommends no packages.
Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn fwupd <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-flatpak <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-limba <none>
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There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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