Bug 184019 - The Add/Remove aplet crashes. It is unable to process the list of installed software.
Summary: The Add/Remove aplet crashes. It is unable to process the list of installed s...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 184017
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: pirut
Version: 5
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2006-03-05 02:08 UTC by Donald B. McAlister
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-03-06 09:38:35 UTC
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Description Donald B. McAlister 2006-03-05 02:08:08 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; TaxWise20.02[0003]; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; Media Center PC 3.1)

Description of problem:
The add/remove software aplet is unable to retreive the information about installed software. It reports an unhandled exception: 
Component: Software manager 
Summary: TB86fdcb55 repos.py 431:check: Repo Error: Cannot find a valid base for repo: development

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
pirut -0.9.10-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Press "Add/Remove Software" under the Applications menu
2.The package manager window opens and the aplet begins to search for software. 
3.It crashes producing an exception window with the message above
  

Actual Results:  See above

Expected Results:  List of installed software and the opportunity to add or remove software.

Additional info:

I reinstalled the Fedora Core in case there was an installation error. Same result!
Comment 1 Rahul Sundaram 2006-03-06 09:38:35 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 184017 ***
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