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

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  package software-center 13.10-0ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade:
  subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1

Status in software-center package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  shahrouz@shahrouz-Precision-M6400:~/.config$ sudo apt-get upgrade
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Calculating upgrade... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  1 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/325 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  dpkg: error processing package software-center (--configure):
   package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
   reinstall it before attempting configuration
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   software-center
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  
  shahrouz@shahrouz-Precision-M6400:~/.config$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall software-center
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  2 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/325 kB of archives.
  After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
  (Reading database ... 211607 files and directories currently installed.)
  Preparing to unpack .../software-center_13.10-0ubuntu4.1_all.deb ...
    File "/usr/bin/pyclean", line 63
      except (IOError, OSError), e:
                               ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  dpkg: warning: subprocess old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
  dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
    File "/usr/bin/pyclean", line 63
      except (IOError, OSError), e:
                               ^
  SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/software-center_13.10-0ubuntu4.1_all.deb (--unpack):
   subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 35, in <module>
      from debpython.version import SUPPORTED, debsorted, vrepr, \
    File "/usr/share/python/debpython/version.py", line 24, in <module>
      from ConfigParser import SafeConfigParser
  ImportError: No module named 'ConfigParser'
  dpkg: error while cleaning up:
   subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/software-center_13.10-0ubuntu4.1_all.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

  ProblemType: Package
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: software-center 13.10-0ubuntu4.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  AptOrdering:
   software-center: Install
   software-center: Configure
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Aug 16 19:39:32 2014
  DuplicateSignature: package:software-center:13.10-0ubuntu4.1:subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
  ErrorMessage: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-15 (1 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140722.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: package software-center 13.10-0ubuntu4.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

  Temporary workaround.

  Ubuntu 14.04 apt-get install has dependencies to Python 2.7

  For me this issue has occurred aster I have tried to use Python 3 as
  default and going back to python 2.7 fixed the issue.

  sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python

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