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[Hannie Dumoleyn <lafeber-dumoleyn2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Miles,
Thanks for this tip. I installed USC in Xenial (VirtualBox) using 
Synaptic and it works!
To all:
Now I am wondering if we (UMP) should advise our readers to install it 
in Xenial. What do you think?
Hannie

USC was definitely more fleshed out and feature-complete. GNOME Software 
was little more than a toy just a few releases ago and it has no 
intention of becoming a full-blown package manager nor support for-pay 
items. For what it's worth, it looks like the Ubuntu Software Center is 
still present in the repositories, it's just not installed by default. 
Last change on Feb 18th. I guess technically we could stick with it, but 
it's going away after Xenial by the looks of things.

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 12:56 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn 
<lafeber-dumoleyn2@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:lafeber-dumoleyn2@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:

   Thanks everyone for your reaction on this subject. I agree with
   Miles (see email below) that it is much better to use Synaptic or
   apt-get install in the terminal, but since our manual is written for
   beginners, we should explain the use of Software extensively.
   Personally I think Ubuntu Software Center is much better than
   gnome-software. I have no idea why they change this in Xenial,
   except that perhaps there are not sufficient maintainers for USC to
   continue with it.
   Hannie



   Miles wrote:

   I'm running the latest updates right now on Xenial and when opening up
   (GNOME) Software the three tabs present on top are All, Installed, and
   Updates. All takes you to the "home" page where you can browse the
   available software, while Installed will show what currently-installed
   programs you have. The All tab is largely search and category driven,
   not the kinds of lists most people expect. Probably because Software
   doesn't purport to be a general-purpose package manager GUI.

   I'm not yet sure if the Updates tab functions properly on Xenial, but I
   expect it should.

   Something that I haven't been able to figure out how to gracefully
   translate from the Ubuntu Software Center and (GNOME) Software is
   dealing with the vast majority of packages that contain none of the
   needed packaging metadata. Software is not a traditional package manager
   like Synaptic, it is far more app-store oriented. I don't know if
   Software will ever be the go-to option for finding some library or
   esoteric package to install, rather if you tell someone to install
   Amarok, you can know that if they open Software, search for and install
   Amarok, it will give them what they need in an easy-to-navigate way. As
   far as I can tell, with the USC gone and Software being so hindered, the
   terminal is the easiest place to guide people towards.

   Hope that helps at all! :)

   Sincerely,
   Miles Sean Robinson

   On 04/05/2016 02:31 AM, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote:

       While changing text in the manual, section
       "ubuntu-software-center", I
       noticed something strange. In Software (Xenial Beta 1 in Virtual
       Machine), when I click the All button at the top of the window,
       I get
       the home page (the same page you get when you start the application
       Software. Shouldn't I get a list of all available applications?
       Is it
       a bug?
       Can anyone who has installed Xenial in VM confirm that you get the
       home page when you click on All?
       btw, I have done sudo-apt update and sudo-apt upgrade in Xenial.
       Thanks,
       Hannie

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