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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  SW Center search finds, allows installation of package that doesn't
  exist

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-center

  After upgrading from Maverick to Natty I want to use greasemonkey in
  Firefox, so I:

  1) Launch Ubuntu Software Center
  2) With the "Get Software" tab selected, I type in "grease". "Greasemonkey extension for Firefox" is returned in the search results
  3) Click the "Install" button

  After clicking install, the SW center shows a progress bar in the
  search listing, just above the 'Install' button. It looks like the
  package is being installed. However, the package does not get
  installed (confirmed w/ dpkg).

  This is really confusing - it's not clear to the user what's
  happening, or why the package isn't installed (I surmise it does not
  get installed because the 'Install' button does not get renamed to
  "Remove" and the green 'checkmark' badge does not get applied to the
  package). There's no indication of what the user should do next to get
  the package.

  Further investigation shows additional inconsistencies:
  * The "More info" button in the search results returns a Not Found message, "There isn't a software package called "Xul-ext-greasemonkey" in your current software sources. This is confusing - why does the package get listed in the search results if it doesn't exist?

  *  If I search for "greasemonkey" with the "Provided by Ubuntu" line
  selected rather than "Get software", the "Greasemonkey extension for
  Firefox" package is not returned in the search results. Indeed,
  searching for greasemonkey anywhere in SW Center other than the "Get
  Software" area does not return the "Greasemonkey extension for
  Firefox" package.

  FWIW dpkg reports I used to have the package in question on my disk, presumably from when I was on Maverick:
  rc  xul-ext-greasemonkey                      0.8.20100408.6-2build1                     extension that enables customization of webpages with user scripts

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: software-center 3.1.25
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-7.39-generic 2.6.38
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Apr  5 10:33:48 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta amd64 (20100901.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-04 (1 days ago)

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