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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.

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Just a suggestion:

Reinstall software center by doing the following:

  1. Open a terminal and type

    sudo apt-get install synaptic

  2. Then, run synaptic and type in the search field software center.

  3. In the results right click on software-center package and select "mark for complete removal".

  4. Click "mark" on the next dialog that tells you that also ubuntu-desktop will be removed. Then click the apply button and go on.

  5. Then, when the removal process is done, find again the software-center package, right click, and select mark for installation.

  6. Also find the ubuntu-desktop package and mark it for installation.

  7. Finally, click the apply button.
  8. 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. – 11chubby11 Nov 29 '12 at 3:20
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You could have stumbled into bug #891499. According to the bug comments, the following might help:

  1. Backup cataloged_times.p

    sudo cp /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p /var/lib/apt-xapian-index/cataloged_times.p.backup

  2. Delete 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 – quantenemitter Nov 25 '11 at 9:29
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Instead of uninstalling then reinstalling like Paul said, I selected mark for reinstallation. This fixed the Software Center.

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Glad you fixed it ;) – Paul Nov 23 '11 at 17:48

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