what is needed to run and install software-center?

Question

i've got a completely stripped lubuntu called linaro (lxde desktop, H8 arm processor, cubietruckplus/cubieboard5) on my console, since the hardware is custom i can't install ubuntu the way i'm used. what libaries are needed for software center? i have installed synaptic and xapian, but the software center tells me there's something wrong with my location? i tried following the installation for mint and it installs, but it's not working.

Answer 1

To show the dependencies of the Ubuntu Software Center (software-center) open the terminal and type:

apt-cache showpkg software-center  

To show the dependencies of Lubuntu Software Center (lubuntu-software-center):

apt-cache showpkg lubuntu-software-center  

Answer 2

Maybe you can try finding all the dependencies of the software centre. Here is how you find all the dependencies:

apt-cache depends software-center

If I do that on my system (16.04) I see the following output:

software-center
  Depends: <python:any>
    python:i386
    python
  Depends: iso-codes
  Depends: app-install-data
  Depends: aptdaemon
  Depends: software-center-aptdaemon-plugins
  Depends: humanity-icon-theme
  Depends: gir1.2-glib-2.0
  Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0
  Depends: gir1.2-gmenu-3.0
  Depends: gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
  Depends: gvfs-backends
    gvfs-backends:i386
  Depends: python-gi
  Depends: python-gi-cairo
  Depends: python-xapian
    python-xapian1.3
  Depends: python-apt
  Depends: python-aptdaemon
  Depends: python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets
  Depends: python-dbus
  Depends: python-defer
  Depends: python-lxml
  Depends: policykit-1
    policykit-1:i386
 |Depends: policykit-1-gnome
    lxpolkit
    mate-polkit
  Depends: <policykit-1-kde>
  Depends: python-xdg
  Depends: ubuntu-sso-client
  Depends: python-piston-mini-client
  Depends: oneconf
 |Depends: python-oneconf
  Depends: oneconf
  Depends: python-debtagshw
  Conflicts: <gnome-app-install>
  Recommends: lsb-release
  Recommends: apt-xapian-index
  Recommends: update-notifier
    gnome-packagekit
  Recommends: software-properties-gtk
  Recommends: sessioninstaller
  Recommends: xz-utils
    xz-utils:i386
  Replaces: <gnome-app-install>
    software-center

And here is what one gets for lubuntu:

> apt-cache depends lubuntu-software-center

lubuntu-software-center
  Depends: python
  Depends: python
  Depends: python-apt
 |Depends: python-gi
  Depends: python-gobject
  Depends: gir1.2-gtk-3.0
  Depends: gir1.2-notify-0.7
  Depends: python-pysqlite2
  Depends: python-aptdaemon
  Depends: python-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets
  Depends: python-xdg
  Depends: app-install-data

I suspect you would need to install all the packages listed there to get Software centre to work properly.

[Edited to add the output for lubuntu's version of software centre.]