It was broken almost everywhere a while ago in the way you are describing, it’s now pretty solid, but Canonical seriously screwed it up on 24.04 by breaking its dependencies so almost nothing works. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s broken on Debian too, especially since that’s likely an ancient version by now.
The software centre works on Fedora, but is completely broken on Ubuntu.
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It was broken almost everywhere a while ago in the way you are describing, it’s now pretty solid, but Canonical seriously screwed it up on 24.04 by breaking its dependencies so almost nothing works. Wouldn’t be surprised if it’s broken on Debian too, especially since that’s likely an ancient version by now.