[Bug 850371] Re: The Software Center does not show any packages

[Marko Saarinen]

I'm pretty sure it was just the "apt-xapian-index". It was causing it's
own problems (hogging resources etc.) and was really more of an
annoyance than useful. If the Software Center is dependent on the "apt-
xapian-index", then this might be the cause of the problem. Synaptic
seems to be working normally, except that the fast search box is greyed
out (probably also depends on "apt-xapian-index").

But I remember removing apt-xapian-index long before the Software Center
stopped functioning. It could be that some later update in the Software
Center or in some other dependent piece of software combined with the
lack of apt-xapian-index might have caused this.

Sorry, this is pretty much the extent of my problem solving skills in
this area...

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Title:
  The Software Center does not show any packages

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

Bug description:
  The Software Center shows software categories normally, but these
  categories are all empty. It does not show any available packages. It
  shows the installation history just fine, but only for the current
  month apparently (I don't know if this is the correct behaviour or
  not). On the other hand, Synaptic shows the available packages
  correctly, it also shows the entire installation history (several
  months, not just the current one). I have removed the xapian indexing,
  though (it used too much resources and heated up my computer). I'm not
  sure if this affects the Software Center.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: software-center 3.0.9
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.59-generic 2.6.35.13
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Sep 14 23:32:24 2011
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=fi_FI.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-center

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