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[Bug 847050] Re: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

 

Hello George, or anyone else affected,

Accepted software-center into oneiric-proposed, the package will build
now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here.
See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how
to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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Title:
  software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii'
  codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in “software-center” source package in Oneiric:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  trying to install from Mozilla Firefox through apt, example: apt:love

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: software-center 4.1.22
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-10.16-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-10-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.22.1-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Sep 11 17:18:39 2011
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center apt:love
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', 'apt:love']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in __str__(): 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc8 in position 2: ordinal not in range(128)
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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