Internal Error: deb file could not be opened.

[Jay Ó Broin]

When trying to open a deb file I just downloaded I get this error from the Software Centre:

Internal Error
The file "/home/me/Downloads/opera_11.51.1087_i386.deb" could not be opened.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 4.1.23.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-11.18-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-11-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Sep 19 16:25:54 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110909)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-13 (6 days ago)

[Kiwinote (kiwinote)]

Hi! So this error occurs when the debian file can't be opened correctly - most commonly either the download is incomplete and hence corrupt, or sometimes the browser deletes the download when you close your browser before software-center has finished dealing with it. Could you perhaps try to download the deb file again and see if it works this time? Thanks!

[Jay Ó Broin (ismise)]

The download was complete as I was able to install it using dpkg.

[vaibhav (vssmartniceman97)]

I too got the same "Internal Error" while i was installing Google Chrome 14 on Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot.Is there anyway to fix this bug

[FG (gfloryan--deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

when running software-center from the terminal I get:

florian@florian-desktop:~/Descărcări$ software-center ./opera_11.51.1087_amd64.deb
2011-10-09 20:38:33,296 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.em - INFO - EM's: 17 15 21
2011-10-09 20:38:34,318 - softwarecenter.backend.reviews - WARNING - Could not get usefulness from server, no username in config file
2011-10-09 20:38:34,420 - softwarecenter.ui.gtk3.utils - INFO - Softwarecenter style provider for ambiance Gtk theme: /usr/share/software-center/ui/gtk3/css/softwarecenter.css
2011-10-09 20:38:34,683 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - exit code 1 from helper
2011-10-09 20:38:34,683 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - got error from helper: 'ERROR:__main__:get_review_stats
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/piston_get_review_stats_helper.py", line 46, in <module>
    piston_review_stats = rnrclient.review_stats(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 61, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 120, in wrapper
    body = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/piston/rnrclient_pristine.py", line 96, in review_stats
    return self._get(url, scheme=PUBLIC_API_SCHEME)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 321, in _get
    headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 474, in _request
    method=method, body=body, headers=headers)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/httplib2/__init__.py", line 1338, in request
    info, content = cached_value.split('\r\n\r\n', 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
'
2011-10-09 20:38:35,855 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - exit code 1 from helper
2011-10-09 20:38:35,856 - softwarecenter.backend.spawn_helper - WARNING - got error from helper: 'ERROR:__main__:available_apps
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/software-center/piston_get_scagent_available_apps.py", line 148, in <module>
    piston_reply = scaclient.available_apps(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/validators.py", line 41, in wrapper
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_client/__init__.py", line 120, in wrapper
    body = func(self, *args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/share/software-center/softwarecenter/backend/piston/scaclient_pristine.py", line 22, in available_apps
    scheme=PUBLIC_API_SCHEME)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/piston_mini_...

[Jack Deslippe (jdeslip)]

Same problem here with the latest chrome deb. Works fine with dpkg...

[ayushpatnaik (ayushpatnaik)]

sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

WORKS