Dtyjlui

I am missing the Problem Reporting option in Privacy Settings, and I wanted to set it as manual. It was there when I installed Ubuntu, but now it's gone.

To clarify, I have Ubuntu 18.04 with the Pop theme and icons. The Problem Reporting option was there even after installing that theme.

Literally the only thing I did after a fresh install was following some of the steps in the following links; on one of the reboots, the option was gone forever.

• Things to do After Installing Ubuntu 18.04 and 18.10 - It's FOSS




• How to Install Themes in Ubuntu 18.04 and 17.10 - It's FOSS




• How to Use GNOME Shell Extensions [Complete Guide] - It's FOSS

How can I get that option back?

How this would have happened or methods to reproduce the problem.

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  Add Pop!_OS repository using:

  
  
  

  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:system76/pop
  
  

  
  


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  Upgrade the system or upgrade/reinstall gnome-control-center. Use:

  
  
  

  sudo apt upgrade
  
  

  
  
  

  or

  
  
  

  sudo apt install gnome-control-center
  
  

  
  

What happened?

In my understanding the unofficial derivatives of Ubuntu like Pop!_OS remove options of bug reporting because they don't want their users to report bugs in Pop!_OS directly to Canonical (this is quite obvious since Canonical is not responsible for fixing their bugs) and they might haven't created the bug reporting mechanism for themselves (at least via their distribution)(if they have I don't know since I don't use Pop!_OS).

What to do?

The only workaround I think is remove Pop!_OS's repository and reinstall gnome-control-center

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:system76/pop

sudo apt autoremove gnome-control-center

sudo apt install gnome-control-center

Note: Don't use sudo apt install --reinstall gnome-control-center since I got an error like Reinstallation of gnome-control-center is not possible, it cannot be downloaded. Moreover packages installed via Pop!_OS's repository will be there even after removing repository unless explicitly removed. So don't worry about icons and themes, you can still use that.

Try to sanitize apt cache.

sudo apt update && sudo apt-get check && sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

Then try to purge and reinstall fixing broken and missing packages.

sudo apt update && sudo apt purge -y gnome-control-center && sudo apt install -y --install-recommends --fix-broken --fix-missing gnome-control-center