can not install deb package by Software Centre

Bug #630491 reported by NGAGE13
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
software-center (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: software-center

I wanted to install the downloaded package by Applications Center.
issued a mistake!
And i cannot install download packages by Gdebi!

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 690, in simulate
    return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 762, 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 66, in open
    self._debfile = apt_inst.DebFile(open(self.filename))
UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 14-21: ordinal not in range(128)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: software-center 2.1.15
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Sep 5 02:12:20 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center

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NGAGE13 (ngage13) wrote :
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Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine) wrote :

What is the deb file you were trying to install?

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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NGAGE13 (ngage13) wrote :
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NGAGE13 (ngage13) wrote :

Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi,I added deb file to attachment!

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NGAGE13 (ngage13) wrote :
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Rakosi Alpar (ralpyka) wrote :

I'm also affected by this bug. I tried to install a lot of .deb files(Google Chrome, Opera, Dropbox, ...), but I can't because this bug. The error message is like for NGAGE13.

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Kiwinote (kiwinote) wrote :

Hi! Thanks for your bug report. The bug you describe has already been reported by someone else, so I will mark this bug as a duplicate of the other one. Please continue to report any bugs you may find in software-center. Thanks again for your help!

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