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software-center package

No option to remove "For Purchase"

Bug #629500 reported by scottuss on 2010-09-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #630731: Missing filter : free software only. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	software-center (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

There is no option under Software Sources to remove the For Purchase repository. For many of us, we need to prevent users from being able to browse a "paid for" repository in both corporate and home environments. Clearly users could pay for and download software from other sources, but having it tied into the OS without any ability to remove it adds confusion and complication.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 2.1.14.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Sep 3 13:17:34 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Beta i386 (20100901.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

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scottuss (scottuss) wrote on 2010-09-03:

Dependencies.txt Edit (6.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e) wrote on 2010-12-08:

Purchasing software is the problem indeed.

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Kyle Clarke (kyleclarke) wrote on 2010-12-19:

I think it would make sense to include this option in the user permissions.

On by default for admins, off by default for everyone else. Especially guest account.

Robert Roth (evfool) on 2011-05-30

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Confirmed

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote on 2011-06-23:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #630731, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.
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