How to install Gnome Software Center in Ubuntu Gnome 15.04?

Question

How can I install the Gnome Software Center?

I have found the .tat.xz file on Softpedia

but am unable to build in on Ubuntu 15.04. ./configure gives errors.

Ubuntu software center is already installed... Can't you use that? — Tim, Apr 27 '15 at 13:09
The Ubuntu Software Centre is very bloated and slow. I have removed it completely from my system and replaced it with App Grid. However this is also needs work. The Gnome Software center seems sleeker. — charliemoss, May 1 '15 at 8:16

A.B. · Answer 1 · 2015-04-27 14:00:40Z

A better way is a build with JHBuild and checkinstall:

sudo apt-get install checkinstall
git clone git://git.gnome.org/jhbuild
cd jhbuild
./autogen.sh
make
sudo checkinstall --pkgversion $(date +%Y%m%d)

From here it is expensive:

~/.local/bin/jhbuild sysdeps --install
~/.local/bin/jhbuild build gnome-software

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