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That version is no more maintained

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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Title:
  Do not recommend software already installed on the system

Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Ubuntu 12.10, software-center 5.4.1.3

  Steps to reproduce:
  1. Clean installation of Ubuntu
  2. Open the Software Center
  3. Login using a Ubuntu single sign on
  4. Enable software recommendations
  5. Open Recommended for you

  Some of the software is installed by default.

  With customization:
  (steps 1–5 above)
  5. Install any of the one or several of the recommended software
  6. Exit and restart the Software Center
  7. Open Recommended for you

  You get the same recommendations including the application you
  installed in your last session. (With enough applications

  The recommendations in the Software Center are a bit off. This one
  thing in particular irks me because there is no value—assuming
  discovering new software is the value we are after—to the user to
  recommend them software they have already got installed on their
  system.

  I suggest that software that is already installed on the current
  system should never be recommended. The software listings even have
  the little green check mark indicators showing the application is
  installed. (See attached screenshot.)

  <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter/Recommendations#Generating_recommendations>:
  "The server should use a recommender algorithm to identify the ~50
  packages *you don't have installed* that you're most likely to rate as
  excellent."

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