Old Links to Store Still Fail

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I think you’re right. The “typical user” is, as you also said “more technical”. They read the great stuff about what the L5 is but unlike users seeking to get their rights to privacy back, your version of a typical user, IMO is already handy with Linux and is looking for a device they can get under the hood and tinker with.

We’re talking about two different stores here. First, I would drop the name “Store” being used because one expects to pay for something when visiting a ‘store’. Please, don’t anyone explain the definition of a store.

One store :smirk: worked about 2 years ago for me. To be sure, this is how the landing page looks when using PureOS Store icon on desktop:

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and how the Category starts out, and stays that way.

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One we visit from L5 desktop by tapping on the PuerOS Store Shopping Bag icon.
And the other choice, # 2 we visit with a browser

Then there’s Software categories - PureOS Software
 

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and category (Science) snippet example list.

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and Linux Phone Apps .Org

They’re all loaded with great applications. I prefer to stay close to home I prefer software.pureos.net

Have all of those at software.pureos.net been tested and won’t disappear if I tap the “Show Only Mobile Friendly Apps”.

There’s so much software out there it’s hard to know if they are safe, or not.

Sorry - got carried away.

~s

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I would suggest using the website on desktop simply to browse available applications to look for something you want to try. Then go back to the L5 to install them. But since your PureOS Software app isn’t working, you would instead need to install them from the command line, even if you’re not a “typical user” who is “more technical.” (The PureOS Store app and the website catalog both point to the same respository.)

Regardless, I still think Job One is to get those waiting updates installed, even if you have to use the terminal commands for now.

By the way, if you’re using a desktop with PureOS installed, I would use the PureOS Software manager (from the main menu of the computer) to install applications, and not download them directly from the website, which would require some additional security checking/package verification on your part, to avoid potential malware.

P.S. By what method have you been applying updates on your Librem 5 so far?

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“updates”? What’s that?

I sometimes look at the ‘Update available’ (or whatever it says) message and make a mental note to let it do it later - a week or so later, I check to see if anyone has a issue after updates.
I get the update message for a bit, then nothing. Then I forget.

I’ll do it right now but hope it doesn’t fix the wrong thing. I find that after a upgrade :grimacing: I need to change a setting or more, fix directions to download directory and the such.

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What a schemozzled way of finding and installing software.

It’s not just me. There are others that have complained about the L5 link to PureOS Store too.

IMPORTANT:

I did as you suggested and

Then I had to find...

the missing WWAN adapter that PureOS said was went missing - again, reset the ISP settings to get mobile and then more reading to wi-fi back again but before I could do all that, I had to figure out what settings to use so text on some screen wasn’t micro-dots and others didn’t spill over in to the next dimension on the right side.
It’s why I don’t like being a beta tester.

Having done all that, I tried the L5 PureOS Store icon again. Same thing as before. Front loads, Categories empty except for what we see in the pic I included above in Msg 20/22.

When I use the icon on the L5 (PureOS Store) and the web version you provided (software.pureos.net) do the look so different.? [Internal link corrected by moderator]

And, why does my L5 link look different than your L5 link?

What a mess! Puri needs to clean up what is approved by Puri and what is Puri’s own software ‘repository’?

No sense buying a phone for it’s security, privacy and promise to…

protect your private information (Purism– Librem 5), your digital life through free and open source software,…

if they don’t honour their words.

Is it up to the customer to find places that house Linux software that PureOS says works on it’s platform, to research reviews of the 'ware, ask around and Google if the ware’s are safe and compatible, then search here too about the ware and search through the site and hope if installed doesn’t become one of those warnings on the L5 that says 2“Show Only Mobile Friendly Apps”?

~S

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To be clear, I only suggested it because your PureOS Software app isn’t loading and because you had already mentioned looking for software on the website.

Yeah, we’ve already established that. I know it’s not just you.

Installing all the updates wasn’t guaranteed to fix the store app, unfortunately, but it still needed to be done for security reasons and for any available fixes.

I suspect it’s because the website version is the full catalog of PureOS software, i.e. including desktop, not just mobile, whereas the curated categories in the L5 app present a selection of apps that conform to the mobile screen (although you can search beyond them and try other apps to see if they work and fit… once your L5 is working right).

I’m not sure what you mean, unless it’s that I posted one of the category pages (which don’t load for you) instead of the main landing page.

I can’t help with that situation, unfortunately.

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