So here's the problem.

I was having a problem with software-center and I thought that a nice little uninstall-reinstall might just solve the problem. After checking that it was fine, I did it. However I am unable to reinstall the software-center.

I had performed two removal commands:

sudo apt-get remove software-center

sudo apt-get autoremove software-center

When trying the update commmand this is what I got:

$ sudo apt-get update

Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg

Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release             

Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages  

Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net raring Release.gpg

Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net raring Release

Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en

Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net raring/main i386 Packages

Hit https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring Release.gpg

Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net raring/main Translation-en

Hit https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring Release.gpg

Hit https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring Release

Hit https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring Release

Hit https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring/main i386 Packages

Hit https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring/main i386 Packages

Ign https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring/main Translation-en

Ign https://private-ppa.launchpad.net raring/main Translation-en

Reading package lists... Done

When I performed the install command this is what I got:

$ sudo apt-get install software-center

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Package software-center is not available, but is referred to by another package.

This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or

is only available from another source



E: Package 'software-center' has no installation candidate

Please help, I'm pretty new to ubuntu and I'm not exactly sure how to get the files for it to be able to install the software-center again.

Some more information: I'm running Ubuntu 13.04. Software-center does not exist at all on the computer as well, I've checked.

I read in another thread that I might have an issue with my source server, but when i checked software and updates it says im downloading from the main server.

Please help!

As per the suggestion to try:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

This is what I got:

$ sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

[sudo] password for user: 

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

E: Unable to locate package ubuntu-desktop

As per the suggestion to check the sources.list file, here's what I got:

$ sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list                



(process:3045): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

    Using the fallback 'C' locale.



(gedit:3045): IBUS-WARNING **: The owner of /home/user/.config/ibus/bus is not root!

The file that opened was blank. Checked if the file was blank and here's what I got:

$ sudo ls -l /etc/apt/sources.list

ls: cannot access /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory

$ sudo cat /etc/apt/sources.list

cat: /etc/apt/sources.list: No such file or directory

I guess its safe to assume that its empty?