How to install & fix Ubuntu software-center error in LInuxmint

By George Sruthin - January 08, 2013

How to fix Ubuntu software-center error Linux Mint

There are some problem showing after installing ubuntu software-center in Linuxmint so how to fix this o_O ? i am going to show you how to fix this !

first you need to install Ubuntu software-center

for that open up your terminal
type following commands

 sudo apt-get install software-center

then it will ask you for permission

press y and press enter

it will take some time

and after that it will end up with some error msg like this

correct gamma=(0/100000)
Setting up humanity-icon-theme (0.6.1) ...
Setting up software-center-aptdaemon-plugins (0.1.5) ...
Setting up oneconf (0.2.9.1) ...
Setting up software-center (5.4.1.3) ...
ERROR:root:DebFileApplication import
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/__init__.py", line 4, in 
    from debfile import DebFileApplication, DebFileOpenError
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/debfile.py", line 25, in 
    from softwarecenter.db.application import Application, AppDetails
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/application.py", line 27, in 
    import softwarecenter.distro
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py", line 197, in 
    distro_instance = _get_distro()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py", line 172, in _get_distro
    module = __import__(distro_module_name, globals(), locals(), [], -1)
ImportError: No module named linuxmint
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/sbin/update-software-center", line 38, in 
    from softwarecenter.db.update import rebuild_database
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/update.py", line 33, in 
    from softwarecenter.backend.scagent import SoftwareCenterAgent
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/scagent.py", line 28, in 
    from softwarecenter.distro import get_distro, get_current_arch
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py", line 197, in 
    distro_instance = _get_distro()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py", line 172, in _get_distro
    module = __import__(distro_module_name, globals(), locals(), [], -1)
ImportError: No module named linuxmint

or showing appcrash (Ubuntu software-center has closed unexpectedly)

its installed in your pc but you cant start it because software-center will crash

now you need to follow some steps to fix this problem

, let's do a little bit of coding :D

open /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro as root (dont do any thing foolishness because you cant undo )
if you cant find LinuxMint.py in there then download it from below link

Click to Download

then rename LinuxMint.py to linuxmint.py (just lowercase)
open it and edit line 36, change LinuxMint to linuxmint

rename debian.pyc to Debian.pyc

open _init_.py
change the value in line 170
change it from capitalize to lower

if you try to run it, it will show error because it cant find it's xapian, so just get xapian files, unzip then and paste then in ( download link below )

/var/cache/software-center/

click to download