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gnome-codec-install package

  1. Bug #589746
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 589746

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paul.drover (paul-drover) wrote :

It seems that I too cannot complete the install of 10.10 from 10.04. It failed initially and now when I try to fix it:

paul@infinity:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 152 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up gnome-codec-install (0.4.5ubuntu2) ...
Compiling /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/GnomeCodecInstall/PackageWorker.py ...
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/GnomeCodecInstall/PackageWorker.py", line 48
    trans = yield self.client.commit_packages(
                ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (8)
pycentral pkginstall: error byte-compiling files (8)
dpkg: error processing gnome-codec-install (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gnome-codec-install
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I don't know enough about Python to suggest what the error might be. I've subscribed to this bug.
Paul.