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[Robert Roth <evfool@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Could you please run
software-center from terminal and see if it displays some errors?

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Software Center cannot open external .deb file

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Double-clicking the latest version of Google's Chrome .deb file (x64)
  results in Software Center (eventually) loading and displaying the
  following:

  Internal Error
  The file "/home/.../google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb" could not be opened.

  The expected result was that the deb file would open and the option to
  install would be shown.

  Using 11.10 Beta 2:
  Description:	Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
  Release:	11.10
  software-center version 5.0

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 5.0
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct  5 09:54:04 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta amd64 (20110921.2)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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