software-center crashes on start up : no attribute 'KeyMaker'

[hailindia]

adwaita@adwaita-HP-2000-Notebook-PC:~$ software-center
ERROR:root:DebFileApplication import
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from debfile import DebFileApplication, DebFileOpenError
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/debfile.py", line 25, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.db.application import Application, AppDetails
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/application.py", line 26, in <module>
    import xapian
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/__init__.py", line 1239
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xdf' in file /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/xapian/__init__.py on line 1239, but no encoding declared; see http://www.python.org/peps/pep-0263.html for details
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 128, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.app import SoftwareCenterAppGtk3
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/ui/gtk3/app.py", line 90, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.db.database import (
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/db/database.py", line 103, in <module>
    class LocaleSorter(xapian.KeyMaker):
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'KeyMaker'
adwaita@adwaita-HP-2000-Notebook-PC:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: software-center 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-39.66-generic 3.13.11.8
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Wed Nov 12 22:49:10 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-11-05 (7 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Seth Arnold (seth-arnold)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.