software-center does not install .deb but sudo dpkg -i does
Bug #748882 reported by
Hari Kotcherlakota
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #712377: Opening a known good *.deb with software centre, fails to install as lintian errors cannot be overidden.
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| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| software-center (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: software-center
I tried to download and install dropbox .deb with software-center. It gave me strange error message.
sudo dpkg -i aaa.deb
worked.
Same was the case with skype.
I think this is a bug.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 3.1.25
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Apr 3 00:17:00 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-02 (0 days ago)
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| Hari Kotcherlakota (harik-email) wrote | #1 |
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| Robert Roth (evfool) wrote | #2 |
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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 #712377, 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.