After doing an upgrade, gnome-software was automatically removed from my Byzantium install.
trying to re-install it with apt results in the following error :
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome-software : Depends: software-properties-gtk but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgnome-desktop-3-18 (>= 3.18.0) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.This should be fixed now, but the update will need a few days to migrate out of landing.
After trying to install gnome-software again, I now get the following error :
The following packages have unmet dependencies: python3-apt : Depends: python3 (< 3.8) but 3.8.2-3 is to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I did;
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install gnome-software
apt list gnome-software
Result:
gnome-software/byzantium,byzantium,now 3.36.0-3pureos1 amd64 [installed]
I can't recreate this @francois. Can you try again?
@jeremiah.foster I am still getting the same error after updating and upgrading.
You may have had a version of python3 < 3.8 already installed, which is not the case for me ?
My python version is;
$ python --version Python 2.7.18
You must be using a very new version of python?
@jeremiah.foster I get the same output from the same command.
$ python --version Python 2.7.18
I guess that gnome-software doesn't depend on python but on python3 through the python3-apt package but doesn't want a python3 version higher than 3.8.
$ python3 --version Python 3.8.3
I just found out that the python3-apt package in Byzantium is not up to date and is at version 1.8.4, which is the same version as Debian stable, which is not compatible with python 3.8 : https://packages.debian.org/buster/python3-apt
python3-apt/byzantium 1.8.4pureos3 amd64
There is a newer version on Debian testing (2.1.3) that is compatible with python 3.8 ; https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/python3-apt
I think this might also be the cause of this problem: https://tracker.pureos.net/T915