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Ubuntu Software Installer not working

Asked by John Miller

The Ubuntu Software Center is not working in 16.04. After the upgrade leaving me without a GUI desktop and only a command line, doing a fresh install worked fine. Attempting to reinstall things such as TeamvViewer and Chrome have failed. It will launch attempt to launch an installation and just freeze.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the full output of:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade

Thanks

(What do you use TeamViewer for? There may be a sleeker solution to what you are using it for. What do you do on the remote system?)

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John Miller (chefjohn2006) said : 		#2

sudo apt-get update

Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB]
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Fetched 247 kB in 0s (466 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done

sudo apt-get upgrade

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

As for TeamViewer, I use it to remote into my Windows machine while at school to: transfer files, push Android Studio projects if I forget in order to pull onto the Linux laptop and XRDP into my Ubuntu VM if I want GUI rather than using Putty to name a few.

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Could you not send the files over SFTP?

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

You could try installing packages via command line.

sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

And for teamviewer, as far as I know, that software is not available on any of the Ubuntu repository server, but you have to download the .deb package from the teamviewer.com web pages.

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John Miller (chefjohn2006) said : 		#5

Yes I could use SFTP however I've yet to find a way to XRDP into my server from a non Windows based machine.

Thanks, that got Chrome installed and I was able to dpkg TeamViewer and get that installed as well without the Software Center. I was just trying to point out that the Software Center freezes in the new release, 14.04 I never had any issues.

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Rush Simonson (rush-8733) said : 		#6

I was able to resolve this issue by removing with:

#sudo apt-get remove software-center

and then reinstalling it with:

#sudo apt-get update

#sudo apt-get install software-center

Once I rebooted I was able to see all of the applications. I am looking into the Teamviewer issue myself, my upgrade did not mess up Teamviewer, but my new Ubuntu Server 16.04 install now does not allow me to install. I will be trying this later when I have some time:

https://www.teamviewer.com/en/help/363-how-do-i-install-teamviewer-on-my-linux-distribution

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John Miller (chefjohn2006) said : 		#7

Awesome thank you, that did it! That link is how I was able to get TeamViewer installed myself, I have not personally tried TeamViewer on my Ubuntu VM and it's 14.04 so I cannot confirm for that. Good luck with your Server.