Software center not responding

General Help
#1

Hi,
I Just shifted from W10 to Zorin, I installed Zorin 16 core as my main system on the entire disk. it's a perfect system and shipped with a lot of customization.
Right now I'm facing a problem with my software center.
it's not working at all, im not able to lunch the app,

  • I removed the app through the terminal and install it again, but even though the problem was still not solved.

  • I tried to search in synaptic for any crashed packages to fix but it's not there.

please advise how to recover App center and get it working again

#2

Welcome to Zorin OS 16 Ashly!

(1) Please hold CTRL ALT T to enter terminal.

(2) Please run the following command and then press enter...

sudo apt install -f --reinstall gnome-software

Enter your password when it asks you to. Then after its finished installing, I'd like you to restart your computer.

Once you have done this, hopefully your software-store is operating properly. And if it has, please remember to mark this post as solved, thank you!

  StarTreker

yoda
Your Tech Support Guru

#3

thanK you Startreker,
this is already tried through terminal app removal and reinstall, and it's still not working,
I also had done several system restarts, sudo apt update, sudo apt upgrade.

#4

Have you gone to Software & Updates and changed the sources to MAIN SERVER? If you have, and your having all these issues, then instead, switch to your countries server, and see. Although, I am getting a weird feeling, that dubai, is not going to be a reliable source, so maybe keep it on MAIN SERVER for now.

Its imply just a thought I had. Cause I know of nothing else to try at this time.

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#5

im making the system auto-selecting the best server.
anyhow I will try again and let you know if any change.

#6

Can you please try:

sudo apt clean && sudo apt autoremove

killall gnome-software

rm -r ~/.local/share/gnome-software

Try launching Software again.

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#7

Thank You Aravisian. That fixed my issue with having 'Installed 1'....

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You're good. You help without even knowing it at times...haha

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