[FIX] Add/Remove Applications List Empty Ubuntu Linux 8.10
So suddenly you can no longer add or remove new programs because everything is gone in your Add/Remove applications list? Same thing happened to me and luckily the fix is quite easy. It seems that the culprit is an installation of Adobe Air, but don’t worry no need to remove Adobe Air and lose all of those cool programs., just follow the simple instructions below:
- Close all open applications, you can keep this browser window open
- Open a terminal session (Applications - Accessories - Terminal)
- In the terminal type:
sudo apt-get install gnome-app-install --reinstall
- Hit enter and watch the gnome-app-install reinstall
- All done, your Add/Remove Applications list should be working like new!
Let us know in the comments if this worked for you or if you had any issues.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Hi, slight mistake there, its — and NOT -, thanks for the fix
sudo apt-get install gnome-app-install –reinstall
sudo apt-get install gnome-app-install –reinstall
March 31st, 2009 at 4:52 pm
your blog changed the double dash to a single one, prob some auto correction plugin. Anyways in the -reinstall, there are two dashes and not only one.
March 31st, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Works like a charm. Thanks.
Needs to be 2 hyphens before the “reinstall” part of the shell command.
March 31st, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Thanks for letting me know, in the editor it looks fine so not sure what happened. Fixed now though!
June 13th, 2009 at 9:35 am
It WORKED! Thank you so much! I’d been hunting for a solution for this for quite a while.