package apturl 0.3.6ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/apturl usr/share/pyshared/AptUrl/AptUrl.py usr/share/pyshared/AptUrl/Version.py] failed to install/upgrade: error creating directory `./usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/gtk': No such file or directory

Bug #422882 reported by David Favor
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: apturl

apt-get dist-upgrade fails to install apturl.

It appears there is an extraneous leading '.' in the path mentioned below...

Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apturl
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
15 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/12.4kB of archives.
After this operation, 102kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
(Reading database ... 205828 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace apturl 0.3.6ubuntu1 (using .../apturl_0.4.0ubuntu3_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apturl ...
Replaced by files in installed package apturl-common ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/apturl_0.4.0ubuntu3_all.deb (--unpack):
 error creating directory `./usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/gtk': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/apturl_0.4.0ubuntu3_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Sep 1 17:15:38 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: error creating directory `./usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/gtk': No such file or directory
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: apturl 0.3.6ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/apturl usr/share/pyshared/AptUrl/AptUrl.py usr/share/pyshared/AptUrl/Version.py]
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-9.29-generic
SourcePackage: apturl
Title: package apturl 0.3.6ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/apturl usr/share/pyshared/AptUrl/AptUrl.py usr/share/pyshared/AptUrl/Version.py] failed to install/upgrade: error creating directory `./usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/gtk': No such file or directory
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-9-generic i686

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David Favor (davidfavor) wrote :
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Philip Belemezov (phible) wrote :

I have the exact problem (x86_64 Karmic here).

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Stéphane Scot (stephane-chloste) 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 422825, 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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