Double clicking on .deb file launches Software Center which crashes when I hit the "Install" button<type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 'dbus.Struct' object does not support item assignment

Bug #708836 reported by Jim Brumbaugh
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: aptdaemon

Trying to install google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb which has been saved to hard drive by double clicking on .deb.

Software Center launches and presents an "Install" button. Pressing Install causes crash in aptdaemon.

master@master-Latitude-X300:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04

Ubuntu Software Center
3.1.11 (software-center)

0.40+bzr541-0ubuntu1 (aptdaemon)

0.20+bzr117-0ubuntu1 (sessioninstaller)

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: aptdaemon 0.40+bzr541-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Annotation: Installation of the package file failed
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Jan 27 11:23:58 2011
DesktopFile: /usr/share/aptdaemon/aptdaemon.desktop
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/aptd
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: aptdaemon
Title: <type 'exceptions.TypeError'>: 'dbus.Struct' object does not support item assignment
TransactionDepends: [[], [], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionKwargs: {'path': dbus.String(u'/home/master/Desktop/Software/google-talkplugin_current_i386.deb'), 'force': dbus.Boolean(False)}
TransactionLocale: en_CA.UTF8
TransactionPackages: [[], [], [], [], [], []]
TransactionRole: role-install-file

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Jim Brumbaugh (bleumyst) wrote :
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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

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 #702217, 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.

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