After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 765199 - unable to update manually by opening an RPM
unable to update manually by opening an RPM
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-software
Classification: Applications
Component: General
3.18.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: GNOME Software maintainer(s)
GNOME Software maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-04-18 10:00 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2017-10-24 15:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Pierre Ossman 2016-04-18 10:00:52 UTC 
I have some software that is installed directly via the RPM (no repo). Unfortunately Gnome Software is buggy and does the wrong thing when I open an updated version of the software.

Instead of showing me an upgrade window, it just opens the information for the currently installed version. So I have a big red "Remove" and the regular "Website", "History" and "Launch".

I'm fairly sure this has worked before, so either is this a random bug or a regression.
Comment 1 Pierre Ossman 2016-04-18 11:15:33 UTC 
It gets worse, uninstalling the software is an insufficient workaround. All it does is change "Remove" to "Install" for the old version, which just throws an error.
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2016-09-12 08:08:30 UTC 
Is this still true for 3.21? We added an update button for exactly this use case.
Comment 3 Pierre Ossman 2016-09-13 07:33:49 UTC 
I'm on 3.20.4 now, where upgrades seem to work (but the button says "Install" and the history isn't updated).
Comment 4 Allan Day 2017-10-24 15:07:04 UTC 
Sounds like this has been fixed.