Bug 487769

Summary:	Discover reports no packages installed
Product:	[Applications] Discover	Reporter:	drjohnpayne
Component:	discover	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	aleixpol, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.8
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description drjohnpayne 2024-05-29 22:02:53 UTC

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SUMMARY
Discover reports 0 items installed

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. While upgrading from Kubuntu 23.01 to 24.04, I unchecked the "Unsupported sources" button in Discover.  That caused it to lose track of the installed software, which now shows Installed: 0.
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OBSERVED RESULT
Discover sees no installed packages.


EXPECTED RESULT
It should show the installed packages I have.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.8
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Kernel: 6.8.0-31-generic (64-bit)

Comment 1 Harald Sitter 2024-06-03 09:06:20 UTC

Please get in touch with Kubuntu. "Unsupported sources" is not one of our features and your version of discover is lagging behind.

Comment 2 drjohnpayne 2024-06-04 19:32:39 UTC

OK, will do.  I don't understand how my version of Discover was "lagging," since I had applied all recommended updates.  Would that be a failure of Kubuntu to bundle the right version of Discover?  Or did they add the 'sources' feature on top?  In any case, it wasn't a small problem -- this bug crashed my system so badly that I lost the OS and all of my software and had to reinstall it from scratch.