kpackage kit errors when updating in lucid

[Christopher Patrick]

when i try to update a fresh kubuntu 10.04 from the 20110715 daily-live iso i get the following error when i try to update Error Type:
Error Value: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, exceptions.SystemError found
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2216, in
main()
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2213, in main
run(args, options.single)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2175, in run
backend.dispatcher(args)
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 699, in dispatcher
self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 606, in dispatch_command
self.refresh_cache(force)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 202, in _locked_cache
func(*args, **kwargs)
File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1498, in refresh_cache
format_string(error.message))
File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 723, in format_string
txt = unicode(text, encoding, errors='replace')

[Matthias Klumpp (ximion)]

Please remove the package "packagekit-backend-apt" and install "packagekit-backend-aptcc" instead.
The Python APT backend is completely unsupported and will be removed very soon.
(And unfortunately, if you're experiencing this error on Lucid, I can't do very much to solve it. Maybe the APTcc backend available in Lucid will work)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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