Ubuntu 16.04 generates an error report saying the gnome software has crashed and asks me to restart the computer.
Why is the error occurring and how do I solve it?
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Newbie in Ubuntu. I got the exact same error messages in 2 new fresh installs of Ubuntu 16.04 on VMware player 12. One consequence of this problem was that all icons in the Ubuntu Software Manager ended up being blanks.
Additionally the error message stated:
UnreportableReason: You have some obsolete package versions installed. PLease upgrade the following packages...
note: apt-get upgrade left the gnome package and a few others kept back, so apt-get dist-upgrade allowed those left over packages to be installed. I understand there are some concerns about using apt-get dist-upgrade but since I had a fresh install of Ubuntu I went ahead with it and it solved my problem. Hope this helps.
The decisions were taken at a recent desktop Sprint held at Canonical HQ in London.
“We are more confident in our ability to add support for Snaps to
GNOME Software Centre (sic) than we are to Ubuntu Software Centre. And
so, right now, it looks like we will be replacing [the USC] with GNOME
Software Centre”, explains Ubuntu desktop manager Will Cooke at the
Ubuntu Online Summit.
This isn’t huge news if you’ve been keeping track of the increasing deterioration of the Ubuntu Software Center. This summer, I chronicled how Canonical was slowly letting the Ubuntu Software Center wither and die. The paid “app store” side of it was axed with no warning to developers. Ubuntu MATE 15.10 already dropped the Software Center for something better.
The Software Center was great when it was released, offering a more user-friendly “app store”-like interface for installing Linux software. But it has stagnated and is rather slow. Other applications—particularly GNOME’s Software app—have caught up. Ubuntu’s developers haven’t really been working much on the Ubuntu Software Center, after all. They’ve been working on the next-generation app store for Unity 8, which works on Ubuntu for phones and will eventually arrive on the desktop with the converged Unity 8 desktop.
GNOME Software to the rescue
If you’ve ever used Fedora—or just seen screenshots of it—you’ve
probably seen GNOME’s Software application in action. Fedora, a fairly
GNOME-centric Linux distribution, was the first to adopt it.
This will give the traditional Unity 7 desktop on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS a
stable software center that other people are working on and
maintaining, freeing up development time. It’s also more modern, and
Ubuntu’s developers feel it would be easier to add support for those
new container-like Snappy packages to GNOME Software than to the old
Ubuntu Software Center
I do not know why gnome software does not show as many software however I do know that there is definitely no way to change the software it shows using the GUI if it can be done using the command line then I do not know how to do it
Best Answer
Newbie in Ubuntu. I got the exact same error messages in 2 new fresh installs of Ubuntu 16.04 on VMware player 12. One consequence of this problem was that all icons in the Ubuntu Software Manager ended up being blanks.
Additionally the error message stated:
I completed the update process:
Those steps resolved my problem.
note:
apt-get upgrade
left the gnome package and a few others kept back, soapt-get dist-upgrade
allowed those left over packages to be installed. I understand there are some concerns about usingapt-get dist-upgrade
but since I had a fresh install of Ubuntu I went ahead with it and it solved my problem. Hope this helps.