[karmic] bad .desktop file: /usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop

[Asif Youssuff]

Unpacking replacement app-install-data ...
Setting up app-install-data (0.9.10.1) ...
Caching application data...
Generating mime/codec maps...
bad .desktop file: /usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop: ParsingError in file '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop', [Desktop Entry]-Header missing

apt-cache policy app-install-data
app-install-data:
  Installed: 0.9.10.1

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Confirmed, but the file belongs to the 'pauker' package.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

In fact the pauker.desktop file is missing
[Desktop Entry]
as the first line.
After adding it the error goes away.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

got confused there. The file belongs to app-install-data after all, but the fact stays that both packages are broken.

[KevinM (kevbert1)]

Got this error while updating 2.6.30-10 64 bit kernel via terminal:
Setting up app-install-data (0.9.10.4) ...
Caching application data...
Generating mime/codec maps...
bad .desktop file: /usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop: ParsingError in file '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop', [Desktop Entry]-Header missing

[Tuomas Aavikko (taavikko)]

Tried adding the "desktop entry" line to beginning of the .desktop file, but the reinstall of app-install spits out the same error.

[tekstr1der (tekstr1der)]

Still seeing this same error in Karmic Alpha 4 when upgrading gnome-app-install 0.5.52-0ubuntu1.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

The new version has been sync'd from Debian now

[kulight (kulight)]

im still getting this problem

desktop:~$ sudo aptitude reinstall app-install-data
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages will be REINSTALLED:
  app-install-data
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6691kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Get:1 http://il.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main app-install-data 0.9.10.6 [6691kB]
Fetched 6691kB in 1min 53s (59.1kB/s)
(Reading database ... 109675 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace app-install-data 0.9.10.6 (using .../app-install-data_0.9.10.6_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement app-install-data ...
Setting up app-install-data (0.9.10.6) ...
Caching application data...
Generating mime/codec maps...
bad .desktop file: /usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop: ParsingError in file '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop', [Desktop Entry]-Header missing

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done

[Pieter Vande Wyngaerde (pietervandewyngaerde)]

i am still getting this error message too.

[Tuomas Aavikko (taavikko)]

31/8/2009 "aptitude full-upgrade"

Setting up packagekit-backend-apt (0.4.9+20090825-0ubuntu2) ...
Generating mime/codec maps...
bad .desktop file: /usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop: ParsingError in file '/usr/share/app-install/desktop/pauker.desktop', [Desktop Entry]-Header missing

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

This was fixed with the following upload:

app-install-data-ubuntu (0.9.10.7) karmic; urgency=low

  * updated for alpha5
  * add menu-data-additional/bzr.desktop

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:10:31 +0200

[tekstr1der (tekstr1der)]

Fixed upstream though the tracker claims bug not to exist with Debian...