Software center won't open.

[thedarkdragon65]

I have tried to run it with the commend:

sudo software-center --enable-lp

However, I get the following error:

File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 152
    print time.time()
             ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

This occurred after I installed Python 3 and made it the "default" python on the system. Any help would be great. Thanks.

[shubham1]

might be the old python runs this syntax as valid but new does not try making old python the defualt and test it

[psrdotcom]

Hi,

Have you tried to re-install it using apt-get.

sudo apt-get install --reinstall software-center

[thedarkdragon65]

After trying to reinstall it I get the following error:

E: Unable to locate package software-cent

[oldos2er]

The package name is software-center

[lechien73]

According to this document:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/Found...PythonVersions

Software Center is on Python 2.7. Currently Python 3 is not the default Python on Ubuntu 12.04 and may not be until 12.10 or 14.04.

[thedarkdragon65]

According to this document:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python/Found...PythonVersions

Software Center is on Python 2.7. Currently Python 3 is not the default Python on Ubuntu 12.04 and may not be until 12.10 or 14.04.

Oh that probably explains why it isn't working. How can I set Python 2.7 back to my default? Thanks.

[lechien73]

The previous version of python is probably still there, we just need to change a couple of things.

Please could you post the output of:

ls -l $(which python)

Thanks

[thedarkdragon65]

The previous version of python is probably still there, we just need to change a couple of things.

Please could you post the output of:

ls -l $(which python)

Thanks

Yea, the output is:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 29 23:54 /usr/bin/python -> python3

[raja.genupula]

ok use this to set your python to 2.7
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5...-2-7-on-ubuntu