Comment 4 for bug 696282

This happened to me too when on a fresh installed system with the latest updates.

Software-center seemed to start installing chrome after I authanticated, but then it froze. Then after a while if unfroze but without chrome being installed and software-center didn't seem to be working with anything. So I clicked install again and software-center froze just as before. After unfreezing this time I had two installation processes of google chrome going on, I canceled the one that was waiting but this canceled both installations. Chrome did appear in the main menu at this point though, but software-center still indicated that it hadn't been installed.

Similar problems happened on another computer with natty too and neither of them had any problems with maverick so this is a regression.