This is what the Details" said just now when I tried to install ipython
libjs-jquery-ui libjs-mathjax python-decorator python-simplegeneric python-zmq And no indication of what I am to do. This is hardly a way to run a distro that is billed as a Windows or Mac replacement. On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Bruce Salem <bruce.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: > How can a package installer not be a tech support tool? If it weren't for > it your users could not add and remove packages, so to that end its > function is essentially a tech support tool. I appreciate you pointing our > that I could find out which packages pose problems and hopefully there is a > suggestion in these details that I may need to add/remove packages even if > i need to use a more powerful tool like Synaptic Package Manager or the > sudo apt-get command. > > My point wasn't that I couldn't find may way around these and other > problems, it is that having install configurations that are a fragile as > what I have been seeing of late is a show-stopper for Ubuntu and other > Linices that want to compete for market share from Windows and Mac OSX, > especially since the latter is UNIX and does not have these sorts of > problem often or for very long. > > Another vexing thing is the I have learned to use Synaptic for more than > just installing packages, especially when the Software Center GUI doesn't > tell you where it installed things. Because man pages are often not up to > date or accurate, I have had to use it to find out where libs and docs live > that the Software Center does not say when it installs a package. This is a > problem for technical packages. The reason I care is that I can't find > Synaptic > in my 14.04 install. It is in 12.04, so given what the Software Center > doesn't do, that is a regression. > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 1:02 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <m...@canonical.com> > wrote: > >> bsalem, if you had read the comment I was replying to, you'd know that >> the "Details" expander does show the list of offending packages. But >> that by itself does not comprise steps to reproduce the problem. I >> appreciate your frustration, but this is not a tech support system, it >> is a bug tracker. A bug tracker is a system for helping developers make >> the best use of their time. And in general, developer time is better >> used fixing the many bugs that already have steps to reproduce, than >> trying to find ways to reproduce bugs that do not. >> >> -- >> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to a >> duplicate bug report (774393). >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705988 >> >> Title: >> [master] Untrusted packages can not be installed >> >> Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: >> Confirmed >> >> Bug description: >> Binary package hint: software-center >> >> This is the master bug report for software-center not being able to >> install untrusted packages. >> >> The precise error message can be seen in the screenshot attached and is >> as follows: >> "Requires installation of untrusted packages >> The action would require the installation of packages from not >> authenticated sources." >> >> The error dialog only has an 'ok' button which aborts the installation >> and has no option to trust the source. >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WORK AROUNDS: >> >> 1. Use terminal: sudo apt-get install package-name-here >> >> 2. Go to Ubuntu Software Centre > Edit > Software Sources, Download >> from: Change to Main Server or try a different server. >> >> 3. Go to Ubuntu Software Centre > Edit > Software Sources, open the >> second tab "Other Software" and uncheck the Canonical Partners (Source >> Code) >> >> To manage notifications about this bug go to: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/705988/+subscriptions >> > > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/705988 Title: [master] Untrusted packages can not be installed To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/705988/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
