I had the same problem after updating to 12.10, with software-center always crashing immediately. I fixed it by changing line 33 of /usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/config.py from
class SoftwareCenterConfig(object, SafeConfigParser):
to
class SoftwareCenterConfig(SafeConfigParser):
I had the same problem after updating to 12.10, with software-center always crashing immediately. I fixed it by changing line 33 of /usr/share/ software- center/ softwarecenter/ config. py from onfig(object, SafeConfigParser): onfig(SafeConfi gParser) :
class SoftwareCenterC
to
class SoftwareCenterC