Software Manager not working

[mandolyte]

Using new install of LM 12. The software manager starts and allows me to search, etc. But when I click the install button, I am prompted to authenticate; I enter my password and the dialog goes away; and after a moment the install button disappears; but nothing is ever installed, nor do I have any error messages. I tried with several packages and all exhibit the same behavior.

Not sure it is related, but when I click refresh on the update manager, it complains that I have "1 broken package on your system! Use broken filter to locate it." Can't find any such filter. Any ideas?

[richyrich]

IIrc, the Fix broken packages command is somewhere in the menubar of the Package Manager.

[mandolyte]

Using the package manager did the trick. I think all my troubles were because I restored a software list from LM10... Next time I'll just take note of the packages I need and re-install from scratch. Since software was restored with odd permissions (execute missing sometimes), I also ended up:
- completely removing chromium and re-installing
- sudo rm -rf ~/.libreoffice (office wouldn't start because it couldn't update some file)
- then re-installing libreoffice

I think I'm all good now...

[mank_in]

You can fix with the easy way:
sudo apt-get install -f