gdebi-gtk crashed with DebError in compressed_part_name()

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Binary package hint: gdebi

gdebi package manager crashes when trying to install google chrome developer version deb file on ubuntu 9.10

ProblemType: Crash
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 6 18:53:31 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: gdebi 0.5.2
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/gdebi-gtk /tmp/google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/gdebi-gtk', '/tmp/google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb']
SourcePackage: gdebi
Title: gdebi-gtk crashed with DebError in compressed_part_name()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686
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