问题描述：

no application data found

解决方式：

sudo apt purge gnome-software ubuntu-software
sudo apt autoremove
sudo apt install gnome-software ubuntu-software

Starting Ubuntu Software on 16.04 cause an ‘internal error‘. Reinstalling it totally fixed it. It upgraded some packages which I presume were the cause of the problem.

Other fixes did not work on my new Ubuntu 16.04 LTS installation, but the expedient of reinstalling did!

原文：http://www.cnblogs.com/sddai/p/6368530.html