Clearing ~/.cache/gnome-software should not affect functionality
Sometimes ratings are not loaded in GS. Refer below screenshot.
The 20 is from the number of user reviews from odrs.
This happens if the cache is cleared manually ( e.g rm -rf ~/.cache/gnome-software
), and some timestamp check doesn't allow the cache to be reloaded. I did a reset of dconf path /org/gnome/software
and set first-run
to FALSE
. Now starting GS created odrs/ratings.json
in cache, and loaded the rating histogram successfully.