"Software sources" and "software center" fail to run

[Tim Miller]

"Software center" and "software center" are found under System>Administration. They are associated with "software-center" and "software-properties-gtk" in /usr/bin/. When I click on these I briefly get the spinning icon. The icon then disappears and the computer appears to be otherwise unaffected. I have these same problems on a new HP Pavilion and a 4-yr old Acer Aspire.

When I run "software-center" under root terminal I get the following messages.

root@hp_snowlinux:/usr/bin# software-center
librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
librdf warning - Model does not support contexts
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pygst.py", line 28, in <module>
    import sys
KeyError: 'pygst'
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 78, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.app import SoftwareCenterApp
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/app.py", line 42, in <module>
    from view.viewswitcher import ViewSwitcher, ViewSwitcherList
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/view/viewswitcher.py", line 34, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.backend.channel import SoftwareChannel
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/channel.py", line 22, in <module>
    from softwarecenter.distro import get_distro
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py", line 104, in <module>
    distro_instance=_get_distro()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/distro/__init__.py", line 93, in _get_distro
    module = __import__(distro_id, globals(), locals(), [], -1)
ImportError: No module named Snowlinux

When I run "software-properties-gtk" under root terminal I get the following messages

root@hp_snowlinux:/usr/bin# software-properties-gtk
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py:34: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use hashlib instead
  import md5
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-properties-gtk", line 100, in <module>
    app = SoftwarePropertiesGtk(datadir=data_dir, options=options, file=file)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/softwareproperties/gtk/SoftwarePropertiesGtk.py", line 75, in __init__
    SoftwareProperties.__init__(self, options=options, datadir=datadir)
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 55, in __init__
    self.reload_sourceslist()
  File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.6/softwareproperties/SoftwareProperties.py", line 450, in reload_sourceslist
    self.distro.get_sources(self.sourceslist)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptsources/distro.py", line 90, in get_sources
    raise NoDistroTemplateException("Error: could not find a "
aptsources.distro.NoDistroTemplateException: Error: could not find a distribution template

[Lars Torben Kremer (larstorbenkremer)]

Hello!

A fix was already programmed but it is not available in the repository yet. In stable release it will be fixed.

Greetings,
Lars