I'm unable to start Software Center since upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10

[Engr Oke'e]

Binary package hint: software-center

Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10, Software Center refuses to start. I've tried re-installing without any improvement. I'm using Ubuntu release 11.04, and Software Center version 3.0.7. I've tried typing 'software-center' into terminal and it gave me the following response:

brohoward@brohoward-laptop:~$ software-center
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/software-center", line 90, in <module>
    app = SoftwareCenterApp(datadir, xapian_base_path, options, args)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/app.py", line 149, in __init__
    self.history = get_apt_history()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/apt/apthistory.py", line 178, in get_apt_history
    apt_history = AptHistory()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/apt/apthistory.py", line 83, in __init__
    self.rescan()
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/apt/apthistory.py", line 98, in rescan
    self._scan(history_gz_file)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/apt/apthistory.py", line 116, in _scan
    trans = Transaction(stanza)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/apt/apthistory.py", line 59, in __init__
    "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/_strptime.py", line 270, in <module>
    _TimeRE_cache = TimeRE()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/_strptime.py", line 188, in __init__
    self.locale_time = LocaleTime()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/_strptime.py", line 70, in __init__
    self.lang = _getlang()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/_strptime.py", line 29, in _getlang
    return locale.getlocale(locale.LC_TIME)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 497, in getlocale
    return _parse_localename(localename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/locale.py", line 410, in _parse_localename
    raise ValueError, 'unknown locale: %s' % localename
ValueError: unknown locale: en_NG

Thanks for any help you may render.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Hi Engr, thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This issue has actually been reported previously in bug 630248, so I will mark this bug as a duplicate of that one. If you take a look at that bug you will note that it has been fixed in Software Center version 3.1.5 in Natty.

Based on the number of duplicates for this bug in Maverick, we might consider nominating this for fixing in Maverick as well. Please feel free to comment in bug 630248.

Thanks again for your help!