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I accidentally removed gnome-software while trying to fix a problem where I would get random desktop freezes (I stupidly followed the advice on a random forum). This is the relevant portion of the iterm.log:

(Reading database ... 243899 files and directories currently installed.)

Removing ubuntu-software (3.20.1+git20160617.1.0440874.ubuntu-xenial-    0ubuntu1~16.04.1) ...

Removing gnome-software (3.20.1+git20160617.1.0440874.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1~16.04.1) ...

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...

Processing triggers for libglib2.0-0:amd64 (2.48.1-1~ubuntu16.04.1) ...

Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...

Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...

Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...

Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160701-0ubuntu1) ...

Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...

Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...```

I thought I should be able to just reinstall what was uninstalled but I can't seem to do that (at least not through apt-get).

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-software

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package ubuntu-software 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



E: Package 'ubuntu-software' has no installation candidate

and a similar message for gnome-software

sudo apt-get install gnome-software

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package gnome-software 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



E: Package 'gnome-software' has no installation candidate

I thought maybe it was due to my sources in the software & updates but I've enabled all of the sources that I thought could possibly have the packages screenshot of sources

Can anyone help?

output of apt-get update

    Ign:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease

Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                           

Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [95.7 kB]                                                                                                                                      

Hit:4 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release                                                                                                                                                        

Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/git-core/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                

Hit:7 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                                                                         

Hit:8 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease                                                             

Get:9 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [94.5 kB]                  

Hit:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/ppa/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                   

Ign:11 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Horst3180/xUbuntu_16.04  InRelease

Hit:12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop/gnome-software/ubuntu xenial InRelease

Hit:13 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Horst3180/xUbuntu_16.04  Release

Hit:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/wine/wine-builds/ubuntu xenial InRelease

Hit:16 https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie InRelease

Fetched 190 kB in 1s (160 kB/s)

Reading package lists... Done

W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:2

W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:2

W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:2

W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:3

W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:3

W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:3

W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:3

W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:4

W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:5

W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:2

W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:2

W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:2

W: Target Packages (Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:3

W: Target Translations (en_US) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:3

W: Target Translations (en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/arc-theme.list:3

W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:3

W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:4

W: Target Sources (main/source/Sources) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:2 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-desktop-ubuntu-gnome-software-xenial.list:5

output of apt-cache policy gnome-software
gnome-software:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
3.20.1+git20160617.1.0440874.ubuntu-xenial-0ubuntu1~16.04.1 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

updates screen

FYI for anyone who may run into this:

1. removed everything in /var/lib/apt/lists
   


2. followed instructions outlined here.


3. ran apt-get update && apt-get install gnome-software
   

upgrade the pip library .

 sudo pip install --upgrade pip

 sudo apt update

 sudo apt-get -f install 

   then update 

 sudo apt update 

   finally upgrade it

   sudo apt upgrade

 then everything will be installed