I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 (coming from 11.04) today. And I can't use the Software Center from the Dash. When I start it from the dash, it always says that I don't have enough permissions to install software. But my user is in the sudo adm and lpadmin group, as it should be. The only way I can use it is with: "sudo software-center" in the console. Why doesn't it just ask for my password like it always did? Whats is the problem here?
Ubuntu – No Permissions for software center
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Best Answer
If, by mistake, you have something like in
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy
file:you will get the following warning when you try to install something from Ubuntu Software Center:
You can check also the details from the warning.
So, check
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy
file and be sure that is looking like this:To edit it, switch to the root user in terminal with:
then run the following command:
and close that root session with CTRLD or by typing
exit
.