gdebi-kde crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in 'UTF-8')()

[kaktux]

Binary package hint: gdebi

kubuntu 7.10
gdebi-kde 0.3.1 ubuntu1
crasheswhen trying to install .deb package (album cover art downloader)
can be found here: http://www.unrealvoodoo.org/hiteck/projects/albumart/

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 6 13:38:44 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gdebi-kde
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.5
Package: gdebi-kde 0.3.1ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi-kde /home/kaktux/Desktop/albumart_1.6.0-1_all.deb
ProcCwd: /home/kaktux
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=de_DE:de:en_GB:en
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi-kde', '/home/kaktux/Desktop/albumart_1.6.0-1_all.deb']
SourcePackage: gdebi
Title: gdebi-kde crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in 'UTF-8')()
Uname: Linux Bo 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Confirmed with gdebi-kde 0.3.3 in Kubuntu Hardy.

[Mario Italo (marioitalo)]

I have the same problem - Kubuntu Intrepid

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.4.0

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gdebi (0.4.0) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * i18n fixes (LP: #313890), thanks to Gabor Kelemen
  * merged da.po translation update (thanks to Joe Dalton)
  * GDebi/DebPackage.py:
    - better error string for versionized dependencies (LP: #160218)
    - do not crash on packages with no architecture field but show
      a error instead (LP: #261266)
    - fix improper checking for reverse conflicts/strict dependencies
      (LP: #312022)
  * GDebi/GDebi.py:
    - fix filelist display for debs with utf-8 chars (LP: #257597)
    - add refresh action (LP: #156214)
    - tell the user what is being installed
  * data/gdebi.glade:
    - make the status text selectable (LP: #50212)
    - Open is now "Open..." (LP:# 90010)
  * unify the utf8 methods and deal properly with non-utf8 input
    (fixes crash in gdebi-kde, LP: #149893)

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Fix gdebi-kde icon (application-x-deb)
  * Change install path of gdebi-kde desktop file to applications/kde4

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:39:52 +0100