"'/usr/share/app-install/desktop/software-center.menu': Not a directory" error when trying to reinstall the software center

Question

I was having some problem with Software center. So tried to reinstall it. But While removing it give me an error.

(Reading database ... 150986 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing software-center ...
dpkg: error processing software-center (--remove):
 unable to securely remove '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/software-center.menu': Not a directory
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 software-center
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Now The same problem is repeating if I use apt-get to install or upgrade my ubuntu. I cant install any software and Software-Center too.. PLZ help

Answer 1

/usr/share/app-install/desktop/software-center.menu isn't supposed to be a directory, but a file.

Try removing it directly: sudo rm /usr/share/app-install/desktop/software-center.menu

Followed by a reinstallation: sudo apt-get --reinstall install software-center