skype installation crashes when trying to install with the ubuntu software center

Bug #633859 reported by lifestain
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #628061: Should acquire a lock on the lists. Edit Remove
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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 character u'\xe9' in position 17: ordinal not in range(128)

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Nail Mubinov (nail-studioalt) wrote :

My traceback (just the same but with some differents in line numbers, I see):
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 765, in simulate
    return self._simulate_helper(trans, status_path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/worker.py", line 837, 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 11-18: ordinal not in range(128)

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