The new software center in Ubuntu 16.04 shows no application data found
This is the error I get when I open the software center. I've tried rebooting and running sudo apt-get update but I see no improvement. It worked earlier but I don't know what went wrong since then. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 final release on a Dell Inspiron 15R. Any advice will be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
EDIT: The problem magically solved itself without me doing anything special (or maybe inadvertently doing something, I don't know). So I'd still like to get to the root of this.
Just had this problem after using bleachbit to cleanup the system on moving from the beta to the official release. Cleaning out all the cache data also blanked out the software center (re:user533424 above).
It seems to "magically" reappear by anything that regenerates this data. So...
settings>region languages> ... and changing or reinstalling your current language
....also worked for me.
Happenes after you used BleachBit with root access and cleaned App cache Data
- Open Ubuntu Software Center
- Click on updates tab
- Click on small refresh button located at the top-left corner
- Wait for it
Refer pic for refresh button
Everything will be back to normal
I think this has to do with the /var/cache directory, at least that is what I suspect based on my own experience.
Workaround that worked for me:
sudo apt purge gnome-software ubuntu-software
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt install gnome-software ubuntu-software
It works for me.
Change Language Support > Regional Formats to English(United States), then reboot your computer.
Software center works properly now.