Not available in the current data – Ubuntu Software Center

I just installed the Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10) on all three of my machines and at first sight everything seems to be working great. I am especially pleased with the new look of the Ubuntu Desktop and of the Ubuntu Netbook Remix releases.

One thing thing that has been an issue, is that on using the new Ubuntu Software Center, I get the following error messages:

Not available in the current data
and
Not available for your hardware architecture

So in case anyone else is running into this try running:
sudo apt-get update
in a terminal.

From the man page:
“update is used to resynchronize the package index files from their sources.”

After that everything worked fine.

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105 Responses to “Not available in the current data – Ubuntu Software Center”

  1. Louis says:

    Thanks. Only problem I encountered was that being in Australia the setup was set to download from the Australian server which doesn’t work. The Oregon server didn’t work either. I changed to the main server and all went well.
    Thanks Heaps. It has restored my confidence in Ubuntu again!

  2. Yash Goenka says:

    thanks a lot mate!

  3. niks says:

    thanks a lot!!

  4. Mike says:

    Thanks! “Not available in the current data” is such a stupidly cryptic message.

  5. Ulla Bella says:

    Thanks! Worked like a charm!

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