Unhelpful error message when installing MP3 plugins failed

[Sander D]

Binary package hint: rhythmbox

I'm on Maverick and don't have the Canonical Partners repository enabled. When opening the Ubuntu One music store within Rhythmbox, it asks me to install MP3 plugins. This does not work since gstreamer0.10-fluendo-plugins-mp3-partner obviously is not available, but the error message I get is:

    "There was a problem installing, sorry
    Check your internet connection and try again."

There is nothing wrong with my internet connection, and opening Rhythmbox in debug mode shows that the package could not be found indeed:

    (01:38:31) [0x8226e68] [U1Source._on_error]
    /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/umusicstore/__init__.py:818:
    Could not find the gstreamer0.10-fluendo-plugins-mp3-partner package.

The user-visible error message could be made more useful, by basing it on the debug message U1Source._on_error receives.

(In this case, it might be even better to require gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3 from universe, which also fixes the problem, but I don't know whether there are good reasons not to.)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: rhythmbox 0.12.8git20100602-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 8 01:40:21 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/rhythmbox
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rhythmbox