Aptdaemon

cannot install deb files when path contains utf-8 characters

Bug #623903 reported by jt on 2010-08-25

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #624290: gdebi crashes if the control file contains UTF-8 characters. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Aptdaemon	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	aptdaemon (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned
	software-center (Ubuntu)	Triaged	High	Unassigned	Ubuntu ubuntu-10.10

Bug Description

The following unhandled error occurs when trying to install a .deb file in Software Center:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 770, in simulate
    return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 845, in _simulate_helper
    deb = apt.debfile.DebPackage(trans.kwargs["path"], self._cache)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/debfile.py", line 57, in __init__
    self.open(filename)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/apt/debfile.py", line 69, in open
    self._sections = apt_pkg.TagSection(control.decode("UTF-8", 'ignore'))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u2019' in position 646: ordinal not in range(128)

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António PT (antoniopt) wrote on 2010-08-31:

#2

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It's not only when installing Ubuntu Tweak. Dropbox also gives the same error.

Screenshot included.

summary:	- aptdaemon-An unhandlable error occured during install package from - .deb(fille included). + Error ocurrs when installing .deb in Software Center
description:	updated

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote on 2010-09-01: Re: Error ocurrs when installing .deb in Software Center

#3

Could you please paste the complete path to the package file. It is located on your Desktop? Which version of Ubuntu do you use?

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António PT (antoniopt) wrote on 2010-09-01:

#4

The path contains UTF-8 characters, if that's what you're asking.

I'm using Maverick, aptdaemon version 0.31+bzr474-0ubuntu1.

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Josef Andersson (northar) wrote on 2010-09-04:

#5

Getting the same while installing a deb, filed under path cotaining utf-8 and spaces (/user/home/hämtningar/my downloads)

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Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote on 2010-09-08:

#6

Adding a s-c task for tracking purposes. This affects all users with unicode characters in their username / in the path to the deb file.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
milestone:	none → ubuntu-10.10
status:	New → Triaged
summary:	- Error ocurrs when installing .deb in Software Center + cannot install deb files when path contains utf-8 characters

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Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote on 2010-09-09:

#7

Takeing a look at the traceback the problem isn't the path but a unicode char in a section.

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