0002669: Package 'software-center' has no installation candidate

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0002669	Kali Linux	Kali Package Bug	public	2015-09-17 10:54	2025-07-14 09:36

Reporter	dadi7997	Assigned To	rhertzog
Priority	normal	Severity	major	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	closed	Resolution	not fixable
Product Version	2.0

Summary	0002669: Package 'software-center' has no installation candidate
Description	My sources.list: Kali Regular repositories deb http://ftp.hands.com/kali sana main non-free contrib deb http://ftp.hands.com/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free Kali Source repositories deb-src http://ftp.hands.com/kali sana main non-free contrib deb-src http://ftp.hands.com/kali-security sana/updates main contrib non-free updated, upgraded
Additional Information	root@kali:~# apt-get install software-center Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package software-center is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2015-09-17 10:54	dadi7997	New Issue
2015-09-17 12:20	rhertzog	Note Added: 0004011
2015-09-17 12:20	rhertzog	Status	new => closed
2015-09-17 12:20	rhertzog	Assigned To	=> rhertzog
2015-09-17 12:20	rhertzog	Resolution	open => not fixable
2025-07-14 09:36	g0tmi1k	Priority	high => normal

Kali Regular repositories

rhertzog 2015-09-17 12:20 administrator ~0004011	And what's your point? Yes software-center is no longer part of Debian and thus no longer part of Kali. There are other tools to manage packages: synaptic, gnome-software, etc. Please stop reporting useless bug reports.