I cannot open gnome-software
. Here is the error message:
$ gnome-software
(gnome-software:3824): Gs-WARNING **: failed to open plugin /usr/lib/gs-plugins-9/libgs_plugin_xdg_app_reviews.so:
/usr/lib/gs-plugins-9/libgs_plugin_xdg_app_reviews.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I have been grappling with this for some time. I have tried reinstalling and that didn't work. The file shows in my directory in red, I search through the properties and it says that it is broken/missing. I opened it in gedit, and it opened up blank. So after all of that I deleted it figuring updating and upgrading might be the solution. It was not. Now I would like to do one of two things:
reinstall
gs-plugins
without breaking the rest of my systemjust install the missing file in gs-plugins (can't find it)
Or is there an alternative that I am not aware of? Could someone with more experience give me some guidance on how to carry out one of those two options or how I should go about solving the problem? Thank you.
gnome-software
package itself. – muru May 14 '16 at 20:31.so
file is not text, it's a compiled shared library file. You can download the gnome-software package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/amd64/gnome-software/download (change amd64 to the correct architecture if you aren't using amd64) then extract the file from it. – muru May 17 '16 at 16:19