{"id":10289,"date":"2020-06-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10289"},"modified":"2020-06-12T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T16:00:00","slug":"gnome-software-as-ubuntu-software-ubuntu-20-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/06\/gnome-software-as-ubuntu-software-ubuntu-20-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Gnome Software as Ubuntu Software in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/software-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10282\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu Software in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now is really Snap Store. For those who want to revert back the previous Gnome Software, this simply tutorial may help.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.)<\/b> Gnome Software is available in the universe repositories. You can install it easily by running command in terminal (<i>press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal<\/i>):<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-gnome-software-600x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"124\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-gnome-software-600x124.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-gnome-software-450x93.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/apt-gnome-software.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, you can launch Gnome Software, which is marked as &#8216;Software&#8217;, from &#8216;Show Applications&#8217; menu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/launch-software-1-450x260.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"260\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/launch-software-1-450x260.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/launch-software-1.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.) To make Gnome Software into Ubuntu Software.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">IMPORTANT: Snap Store can be easily installed back. But <u>I DON&#8217;T know how to make it Ubuntu Software again!!!<\/u> If you know, tell me how.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Snap Store itself is a Snap application, you can remove it by running command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">snap remove snap-store<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rm-snapstore-600x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"114\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rm-snapstore-600x114.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rm-snapstore-450x86.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/rm-snapstore.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Run command to edit the .desktop file of Gnome Software:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo -H gedit \/usr\/share\/applications\/org.gnome.Software.desktop<\/pre>\n<p>When file opens, do:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Change value of Name to <code>Ubuntu Software<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li>Change the value of Icon to <code>ubuntusoftware<\/code> (no space between the 2 words)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/edit-gnomesoftware.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/edit-gnomesoftware.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/edit-gnomesoftware-450x227.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Save the file and Ubuntu Software is now Gnome Software.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Software in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS now is really Snap Store. For those who want to revert back the previous Gnome Software, this simply tutorial may help. 1.) Gnome Software is available in the universe repositories. You can install it easily by running command in terminal (press Ctrl+Alt+T to open terminal): Once installed, you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}