Ubuntu Software won't show installed programs/extensions after upgrade to 20.04

[galacticstone]

Nevermind. It's still an issue. I just checked again and now the screen is blank. It's no longer showing my installed software. Weird.

[Dennis N]

Nevermind. It's still an issue. I just checked again and now the screen is blank. It's no longer showing my installed software. Weird.

I suggest you remove 'Ubuntu Software' (snap-store) and install 'Software' (gnome-software) which is not a snap. They look the same with the added feature of Flatpak support in Software (it handles Snaps too).

[galacticstone]

I suggest you remove 'Ubuntu Software' (snap-store) and install 'Software' (gnome-software) which is not a snap. They look the same with the added feature of Flatpak support in Software (it handles Snaps too).

Where do I find that version of Software? I tried apt-get and nothing came back. I looked in the default Software/Snap store and it didn't show up as a search result. Can I find it with Synaptic?

[Dennis N]

Where do I find that version of Software? I tried apt-get and nothing came back. I looked in the default Software/Snap store and it didn't show up as a search result. Can I find it with Synaptic?

Use your terminal:

sudo apt install gnome-software

It's in the Ubuntu Repositories.
Some info:

dmn@Sydney-vm:~$ apt show gnome-software
Package: gnome-software
Version: 3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.0
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Recommends: gnome-software-plugin-snap, fwupd
Suggests: apt-config-icons-hidpi, gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

'Software' is the program name you will see with it's icon.

[galacticstone]

Use your terminal:

sudo apt install gnome-software

It's in the Ubuntu Repositories.
Some info:

dmn@Sydney-vm:~$ apt show gnome-software
Package: gnome-software
Version: 3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.0
Priority: optional
Section: gnome
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Recommends: gnome-software-plugin-snap, fwupd
Suggests: apt-config-icons-hidpi, gnome-software-plugin-flatpak

'Software' is the program name you will see with it's icon.

When I tried that, it said it was already installed. So I tried running it from the command line and the same thing happened - software opened as normal, but wouldn't show what's installed.

Here's what I got when I tried to install it from the CL :

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
gnome-software is already the newest version (3.36.1-0ubuntu0.20.04.0).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.