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<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 'dbus.Struct' object does not support item assignment

Bug #726113 reported by Siddhant Saraf
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

I think i encountered this bug when trying to install "install_flash_player_10_linux.deb" which I downloaded from the official Adobe website. Attached the deb file.
My ubuntu version:
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
Finally, sorry if info is insufficient. This is my first bug report.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: aptdaemon 0.41+bzr586-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic i686
Annotation: Installation of the package file failed
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 27 17:13:28 2011
DesktopFile: /usr/share/aptdaemon/aptdaemon.desktop
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 'dbus.Struct' object does not support item assignment
TransactionDepends: [[], [], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionErrorCode: error-unknown
TransactionKwargs: {'path': dbus.String(u'/media/Saraf data_/install_flash_player_10_linux.deb'), 'force': dbus.Boolean(False)}
TransactionLocale: en_IN.ISO8859-1
TransactionOutput:

TransactionPackages: [[], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionRole: role-install-file

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Siddhant Saraf (siddhantsaraf) wrote :
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Siddhant Saraf (siddhantsaraf) wrote :

Also, the system threw up the following errors:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 957, in simulate
    status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 1057, in _simulate_helper
    trans.packages[PKGS_INSTALL] = [deb.pkgname]
TypeError: 'dbus.Struct' object does not support item assignment

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #702217, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

You can find a workaround in comment 3 of bug #702217 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/702217/comments/3) to install the deb file you wanted, until the Fix gets released.

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