Sofware center buggy

Antoine

Hi! i try to install a app from the software center but when i clic no windows for install library. how repar it ?

kyrios

Antoine Could you tell which app (and the exact string you type in the search box) and/or post a screenshot because I am not sure I understand what you mean.

Staudey

Antoine Are you perhaps using the KDE/Plasma edition? In that case that might be the bug with polkit that @ReillyBrogan is currently in the process of fixing with an update of the software.

edit: Wow, I should really refresh the tab before I post a message after half an hour 😃

WetGeek

I'm not sure what the problem might be with Software Center, but if you'd like to install your app before you find out how to fix SC, here's how you can do it from the command line:
sudo eopkg it appname

Just substitute the name of your application for "appname" above. The "it" is short for "install" in eopkg-speak.

Antoine

I know is not a problem for me I like use command line. but sometime laziness takes me and I want a gui tool and the command line working great is just the software center

ReillyBrogan

If @Antoine is on Plasma then this is the now-infamous Polkit bug

Brucehankins

Unfortunately, it seems like the Polkit bug and Plasma just really hate each other. I noticed this, issues with samba, can't transfer files to VMs, themes....I'll be happy when they make up.

eye4bear

I am running Solus 4.3 KDE Plasma 5.25 and after downloading the updates last evening, my system keeps starting to do the update (in the software center) and it almost immediately crashes /closes the update process and leaves me back at the software center home page. Been ages since I had any issues with updates in the Software Center.

Brucehankins

eye4bear Polkit. Run sudo eopkg up -y from the terminal and life will be happy.

joluveba

Brucehankins Polkit. Run sudo eopkg up -y from the terminal and life will be happy.

Sorry if this question is silly, but what does -y do? I use just sudo eopkg up, and perhaps I'm missing something.

eye4bear

Thanks, I have already run it in terminal. I see that they already have it patched in the unstable repo so we should get it with this weeks update.

WetGeek

joluveba Sorry if this question is silly, but what does -y do?

It automatically answers "yes" for you when you get one of those "Continue (Y/n)" prompts. So you don't have to stay at the keyboard to move the process along.

Brucehankins

joluveba WetGeek that's it. Just saves a couple keystrokes and moves things along.