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gdebi package

  1. Bug #1946499
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1946499

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Norbert (nrbrtx) wrote : Re: installation of deb-packages with gdebi-gtk shows "dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor" in gdebi terminal, package is not installed

The same happens with normal official package from the repository:

```
cd ~/Downloads
apt download mc
gdebi-gtk mc_3%3a4.8.26-1.1_amd64.deb
```

shows the following in the Gdebi terminal:

```
Selecting previously unselected package mc-data.
(Reading database ... 456803 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mc-data_3%3a4.8.26-1.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking mc-data (3:4.8.26-1.1) ...
Setting up mc-data (3:4.8.26-1.1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor
```