Ubuntu Software Center does not allow changes to software sources
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Published on 2011-11-18T16:26:21Z
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The checkboxes that appear to be changeable under the Edit / Software Sources dialog box cannot be changed. I click on them and they just turn gray and stay at their current setting.
Update:
When I run software-center from a terminal window and try to change one of the checkbox settings, I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py",
line 649, in on_isv_source_toggled
self.backend.ToggleSourceUse(str(source_entry))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/proxies.py", line 143, in __call__
**keywords)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 630, in call_blocking
message, timeout)
dbus.exceptions.DBusException:
com.ubuntu.SoftwareProperties.PermissionDeniedByPolicy:
com.ubuntu.softwareproperties.applychanges
These things happen instead of it properly prompting me for a password (for root privs).
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