Software center is not opening. version is 5.2.6

Bug #1073897 reported by Martin
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This bug affects 3 people
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software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

When run from terminal it says
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 25,
in <module> from gi.repository import Gtk, GObject
 ImportError: No module named gi.repository

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/update-manager", line 26, in <module>
    from gi.repository import Gtk
ImportError: No module named gi.repository

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JJNR (obiguanquenove) wrote :

Same thing happens to me in 2013.

Several solutions found on the web do not work.

Can I fix this without reinstalling the whole system?

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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ljs (lijunshuai) wrote :

Got same problem with 13.04

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