Problems with Software Boutique on Odroid N2

[lah7]

Found it - someone else had a Odroid and had the same issue:

Ubuntu-Mate-Welcome cannot open applications.json

I have found a cause for this problem. On my Ubuntu 18.04 aarch64/arm64 Odroid system it is refusing to read the applications.json file because that file contains accented characters. I removed the accented characters from the Deja application entry in the json file and it now works. However this in turn requires an explanation as to why it is not accepting accented characters when that same json file is working on my Ubuntu 18.04 arm32 PI system.

It was identified that the applications.json file couldn't be parsed due to some accented characters.

If you set the language encoding to UTF-8 as outlined below, does this solve the issue?

Ubuntu-Mate-Welcome cannot open applications.json

Good catch! It's definitely encoding/locales causing this, but I'm not quite sure which component would be entirely responsible -- if it's a bug in our ubuntu-mate-welcome, the json module, or a system config issue. UTF-8 would be the encoding the software would expect to be processing with. I believe you can find out like this: echo $LANG en_GB.UTF-8 Coincidentally, the other week I put Ubuntu in a container on my Android device (armhf / armv8l), and a Ruby application had problems reading …