GNOME Software in 16.04 LTS

[Matthias Klumpp]

2016-01-15 13:18 GMT+01:00 Iain Lane <laney at ubuntu.com>:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:16:47AM +0000, Robert Ancell wrote:
>> - The appstream data is being worked on - I'll let Iain Lane update about
>> that.
>
> There's a staging deployment at <http://162.213.34.169/html/>. Work is
> underway to get it put into a production location and have the Ubuntu
> mirrors fetch and serve the data so that apt can do the following
> automatically.
>
> In the meantime you can run
> <http://people.canonical.com/~laney/random-scripts/appstream.sh> (as
> root, read it first) to manually put it in the right place. After that
> you'd expect gnome-software to list available applications, but it
> doesn't for me at least. So there is still some more work to be done
> here, probably on the PackageKit side.

That could have various reasons - could you update the versions of
GNOME-Software and appstream-glib in that PPA to 0.5.5-1 for asglib
and 3.18.3-3 for gnome-software? (Maybe also update appstream in the
Ubuntu repo to make it APT 1.2-safe). That way, the old versions can
be ruled out as cause for this problem.

Also, you might consider checking /usr/share/app-info and
/var/{cache|lib}/app-info for any stale files which might interfere
(but appstreamcli would tell you about that when run in verbose mode,
so that issue might not be a problem).
You can also run gnome-software itself in verbose mode and check if
the output contains anything suspicious.

Cheers,
    Matthias