Ive just installed Ubuntu 11.10 and updated it. When I run Software Center it just sits at the loading screen forever. Software center did work before I added the canonical-partners source.
3 Answers
Just a suggestion:
Reinstall software center by doing the following:
Open a terminal and type
sudo apt-get install synapticThen, run synaptic and type in the search field software center.
In the results right click on software-center package and select "mark for complete removal".
Click "mark" on the next dialog that tells you that also ubuntu-desktop will be removed. Then click the apply button and go on.
Then, when the removal process is done, find again the software-center package, right click, and select mark for installation.
Also find the ubuntu-desktop package and mark it for installation.
- Finally, click the apply button.
- Check then if Software Center gets stuck again on loading screen
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Instead of uninstalling then reinstalling I selected mark for reinstallation which fixed it. Nov 29, 2012 at 3:20
You could have stumbled into bug #891499. According to the bug comments, the following might help:
Backup cataloged_times.p
sudo cp /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p.backupDelete cataloged_times.p
sudo rm /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p
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If you get permission problems, see this post. They suggest: sudo apt-get purge software-center apt-xapian-index && sudo rm -rf /var/cache/software-center && sudo apt-get install software-center apt-xapian-index Nov 25, 2011 at 9:29
Instead of uninstalling then reinstalling like Paul said, I selected mark for reinstallation. This fixed the Software Center.