package-data-downloader tries to remove non-existant file, failing with Errno 2
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-notifier (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In Ubuntu 14.10, installations of various packages fail due to package-
https:/
for examples when trying to install the msttcorefonts package (see bug descriptions) and when trying to install the wine-browser-
A very simple patch is to check if the file exists before calling os.remove to remove it. Specifically, replace line 260 of /usr/lib/
with the two lines
With this change I can install wine-browser-
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: update-notifier 3.157
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic i686
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Tue Feb 24 08:59:59 2015
SourcePackage: update-notifier
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2015-02-21 (2 days ago)
I apologize for a typo in the patch in my bug description. The additional lines should, of course, be
("f" not "dest_file").