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  1. 02-01-2010 #1
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    Cant Install or Remove anything in Karmic Software Centre?

    For some time now I've put off installing Karmic as there seemed to be a bunch of complaints and issues right at the beginning (probably unfounded) and stuck to a nice and running 9.04.

    Anyway over the weekend I had some problems. I won't go into them as it's along story and rather irrelevant now. The outcome was that I decided it was simpler to do a clean install so I backed up my files, downloaded and burnt a new Live CD for Karmic 9.10 and yesterday installed it. My first impressions are very good, I like it a lot!

    The only thing I have a problem with is this. Under: Applications>Ubuntu Software Centre I seem unable to install or remove anything. By this I mean after selecting some application when I click on the Install or Remove button nothing happens apart from the slight flicker. Nothing...zilch!
    I can install using apt-get in terminal or using Synaptic just fine.
    My feeling is that its a "button" issue rather than with Software Centre...but who knows

    Any ideas what the problem might be or how I can track it down?
    Last edited by oxf; 02-01-2010 at 08:42 PM. Reason: BTW I seem to get a similar issue in System/Admin/Login Screen. When I click on "Unlock" nothing happens there either!
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    Anyone have any idea how to proceed with this one?
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    Well an update. I've also discovered that besides the software center exactly the same thing happens if I go to System>Administration>Login Screen. When I click on the "Authenticate" button it just flickers slightly but doesn't do anything. So its a button thing but what?

    Everything else though works wonderfully..
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    Well, I haven't used Ubuntu for some time, but if you can find out what the executable is called and start the Software Center from the command line, you may get some useful error message in the terminal.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reed9 View Post
    Well, I haven't used Ubuntu for some time, but if you can find out what the executable is called and start the Software Center from the command line, you may get some useful error message in the terminal.
    Thanks, good point.
    Entering "software-center" in terminal just launches it. I'm wondering if there's a diagnostic command I can run since I also get the problem "Authenticate" button in Login Screen?
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