Using Synaptic trying to update software with update process

[rodmisterdisc]

Ubuntu server release 10.04 (lucid)

kernel linux 2.6.32-23-generic-pae

GNOME 2.30.2

Error Type: <type 'exceptions.UnicodeEncodeError'>
Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u201c' in position 153: ordinal not in range(128)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2216, in <module>
    main()
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2213, in main
    run(args, options.single)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 2175, in run
    backend.dispatcher(args)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 710, in dispatcher
    self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:])
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 557, in dispatch_command
    self.get_details(package_ids)
  File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 923, in get_details
    pkg.homepage, pkg.packageSize)
  File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 207, in details
    print >> sys.stdout, "details\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$s\t$ld" $ (package_id, package_license, group, desc, url, bytes)

[Mitch Towner (kermiac)]

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 546607, 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. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.