GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 777837
Installed status of dependencies only updated after restart
Last modified: 2018-01-24 17:27:02 UTC
If I install winetricks in gnome-software it correctly pulls in its dependency wine. But then in g-s only winetricks will be shown as installed, wine not. If I explicitly click install wine then, it shows some progress bars, and afterwards everything is shown correctly. Alternatively I can "killall gnome-software" (or reboot). Then the status is correct in a new g-s. If I uninstall wine it will also correctly uninstall winetricks, but both (winetricks always, wine maybe only sometimes) will still be shown as installed in g-s. If I try to "uninstall" it again I correctly get an error "no packages to remove". After killall & restart their status is correct again. Not sure if this is the solution, or just related, but I'd like g-s to refresh/reload its database (or whatever) automatically, or at least when it is "restarted" (= close window and start again), without having to kill the old process first. Debian Stretch (testing/unstable) gnome-software 3.22.5-1 wine 1.8.6-3 winetricks 0.0+20170101-1 Note: wine installs only an appdata.xml (will submit upstream soon), but no .desktop file. winetricks only installs a .desktop (in upstream git, but not released yet). The needed versions to reproduce are currently in Debian unstable and Ubuntu Zesty.
On Fedora wine is just a library - there is no front-end component, so it doesn't ever show up in Software. Could you explain which app you think should appear in Software?
In Debian we ship this appdata.xml file: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/pkg-wine/wine.git/tree/debian/org.winehq.wine.appdata.xml?h=buster (I developed it together with Matthias Klumpp, see https://bugs.debian.org/848839. Thanks for reminding me to finally push it upstream!) It gives this metadata https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/metainfo/wine.html. So "Wine" shows up in the Gnome Software Center, and installs the "wine" package (on Ubuntu "wine-stable") and its dependencies. But you are right, indeed there is no real graphical Wine front-end which a user might "launch". We also don't ship the .desktop file, which has "NoDisplay=true" anyways. This is tracked in bug #777838 here (Please disable "Launch" if only appdata.xml but no .desktop is provided).
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