Kubuntu Package Installer (GDebiKDE) says "Package File Does Not Exist" when trying to install a deb that's in a directory that has a space in it's name.

[Joe]

As the summary says, the Kubuntu Package Installer (GDebiKDE) says "Package File Does Not Exist" when trying to install a deb that's in a directory that has a space in it's name. However, if there is no space in the folder name, it will work just fine. This should be fixed before the final release (i hope). I'm using Kubuntu 7.10 RC.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Confirmed for gdebi-kde, but not gdebi-gtk.

The bug is triggered when there's a space in the file's path, e.g.
LANG=C gdebi-kde toshutils_2.0.1-19_i386.deb

The error is:
The package file does not exist
A nonexistent file has been selected for installation. Please select an existing .deb package file.

[jalvan (joseph-alvan)]

also happens if the name of the library is not in ENG (i'm using Hebrew)

[Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening)]

The fix is unbelievably simple.

Patch attached and here's the change.. a one liner, simply add the following line immediately after it reads the filename from the command line (args[0]). The line replaces a space with '\ ' which is the proper path expansion for directories with spaces in the filenames. Not sure if there's a more gramatically correct way to do this, but this works.

         afile.replace(' ', '\\ ')

So, with the attached patch, this can be fixed and applied to package.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Thanks for your patch.

I rather think, that rather GDebiKDE (where afile gets passed to) should handle it instead. But what do I know? ;)

[Ulrik Mikaelsson (rawler)]

Just tried this on latest Hardy, and could not reproduce. Guess it would be possible to back-track the changes, but I'm not enough familiar with deb/ubuntu packaging to know where to look.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Ulrik, are you sure you've tried it using gdebi-kde and actually installed the package?
Because I just could reproduce it still.

[Adam Spain (adamspain)]

Since bug #209831 is now fixed so kdesudo copes with spaces in arguments, I think this can be fixed. The patch above didn't fix it for me on hardy though, so I've made a very minor change to GDebiKDE.py. I don't know how it affects the issue using Hebrew, but I guess that should be filed as a separate bug.

It would be nice to get this in hardy, but with the archive now being frozen I'm not sure if it would get in.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

Thanks for your fix, Adam.
I've wrapped it in a debdiff.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package gdebi - 0.3.8

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gdebi (0.3.8) hardy; urgency=low

  * GDebi/GDebiKDE.py:
    Fix installation of .deb packages with spaces in the filename;
    Patch from Adam Spain (LP: #152856)

 -- Daniel Hahler <email address hidden> Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:26:08 +0200

[Laur Mõtus (vprints)]

Confirmed on both up-to-date Hardy and Interpid

[Laur Mõtus (vprints)]

I am very sorry, I accidently modified a bug in a wrong tab.
Sorry again!