[xubuntu-users] Install software

[Chris Spackman]

On 2016/05/11 at 03:41am, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> On 2016/05/10 23:27, Chris Green wrote:

> Mr. Adsen suggested:

> If you want the old Software Center back, run the following in a
> terminal:

> sudo apt install software-center

> THAT does not work either. I get the error: "Package software center
> is not available, but is referred to b another package.

> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted or is
> only available from another source."

> AND .. when I tried "sudo apt-get install xxx" for an application, I
> get a long list of "Failed to fetch xxx" lines, so that installation
> via the terminal is not working either.

Both of these issues suggest to me that your system's list of packages
is not up to date. Are you able to run the system update? Probably
part of the Gnome Software, or maybe in the menu as "Update System" or
some such.

Another possibility is that the lists are up to date, but some common
repositories are not included. Can you check that all not-source
repositories are marked for use? They are called things like "main",
"universe", and "multiverse" or might have descriptions like
"maintained by Canonical", "Community maintained software" and
"software restricted by copyright or legal issues", respectively. If
one or two of those are not checked (selected), then select them and
try updating your system.

-- 
Chris Spackman

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