Using default browser “WEB 40.2”, I browse to software.pureos.net and pick anything, I see the “Genius Meth Tool” for example, and it wants me to install from appstream:gnome-genius-desktop… can’t see the rest.
appstream opens a “Loading…” title and the dizzy circle spins. and below that, it says “loading application details.”
Is 10 minutes long enough to load? If so, it doesn’t work either.
This can be repeated by testing several different files…
Between clicking the Install Now button and getting to the false “loading…” window, A quick screen loads showing the old PuerOS Store front end.
It looks like someone is trying a redirect because software.pureos.net and PureOS Store look to have different landing pages.
PureOS Store landing page opens but no software lists in any of the categories.
The other store, software.pureos.net opens categories, and in categories, unlike PureOS Store, displays all the programs, but loops “Loading application details” when clicking “Install Now | ✓”
Add to that dogs breakfast, if while waiting for the “Loading application details” I click the back button “<” I am taken to the old PureOS Store landing page totally different from the other store landing page.
The gnome-genius in the screenshot above is the package name. This name should be spelled out exactly as written there, without any typos and exactly with dashes etc. as written there. To install this package via the command line use:
sudo apt install gnome-genius
You will have to provide a password (your Librem 5 pincode) and the “Genius Math Tool” will then be installed. You are finished with the terminal now.
Note that “Genius Math Tool” is only visible in the application icons if you clicked “Show All Apps” at the very bottom of all app launch icons, because “Genius Math Tool” does not really fit the window of the Librem 5 and is therefore not marked as a “Mobile Friendly App”.
I tested the procedure above on my Librem 5, and I do not want to keep “Genius Math Tool” on my Librem 5, so I remove it with:
Out of curiosity are you using epiphany? That application makes my phone run at a high temperature, someone suggested downloading angelfish as a mobile browser, not sure if there is a better one but it allow my phone to run at a lower temperature.
There is a huge difference between the software.pureos.net and the link in the L5 PureOS store.
To see what I mean, please try this.
Go to software.pureos.net.
Click “Utilities”
Click 1st item in Row 1 2nd column “Metadata Cleaner”
Click on “Install”
Now click the back icon (<)
See what I mean? The software.pureos.net landing page changes to the PureOS Store version of empty categories. if you watch closely, when clicking the BACK icon, there is a flash of the PureOS Store landing page version.
I would tag your nicely detailed way of finding and installing files a ‘Solution’, but it’s not. The solution would be for Puri to fix the store. But you have a great workaround. It worked for me and I install Metadata Cleaner without a hitch. Kudos janvlug.
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I wonder why Puri has not commented on when this issue will be fixed.
If we are to be able to use the privacy respecting hardware, why not a method with GUI for those that don’t know Linux commands, to install privacy respecting software (APPS, Programs)?
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