Bug#857927: gnome-software: empty UI (no packages), nothing to do

[Matthias Klumpp]

2017-03-16 12:59 GMT+01:00 Jonathan Dowland <jmtd at debian.org>:
> Package: gnome-software
> Version: 3.22.5-1
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> Installing gnome-software on top of a reasonably fresh testing install
> via the d-i beta RC1; using XFCE desktop via task-xfce-desktop. Upon
> launch, the GNOME Software window appears, with the
> "All/Installed/Updates" buttons, and "Editor's Picks" heading, but
> nothing else: no software, no highlights, no "update package list"
> buttons, nothing on stderr.
>
> I imagine I'm missing some button or process to fetch metadata, perhaps
> it's in a hidden GTK3+ menu bar? (I seem to recall reading that
> GTK3/GNOME3 has some kind of OSX-like combined menubar, or something,
> perhaps that doesn't appear properly in the XFCE environment?)
>
> But as things stand this package is essentially unusable in this
> configuration.

Is this fixed when you run "apt update"?
If not, is it fixed when you run "appstreamcli refresh --force" (as root)?

Cheers,
    Matthias

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