Hi Marcel, and thank you for your bug report. So that we can try to gather more information to help us to debug this issue, could you please try running Software Center from a terminal window as follows:
$ software-center Then follow the steps to reproduce the issue, and finally please paste any output in the terminal to this bug report. Thanks! Your help is much appreciated! ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to software-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1013568 Title: Software Center crashes while installing software Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Software Center sometimes crashes while installing software. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: software-center 5.2.2.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-25.40-generic 3.2.18 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-25-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri Jun 15 09:51:42 2012 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_GB:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: software-center UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/1013568/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp