652863 - "Open with [Ubuntu Software Center]" for .deb files causes error: Not Found/There isn't a software package called "File:" in your current software sources.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:
 0. Be running Ubuntu, with Ubuntu Software Center as the default handler for .deb files. (This is the default in 11.04 -- not sure about earlier versions)

 1. Visit URL: http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ and click "Download Opera"
    (or, click a download link for any other .deb)

    --> Download dialog should offer "Open with [Ubuntu Software Center]"

 2. Make sure "Open with" is selected, and click OK.
   (OR, equivalently: choose Save File, and then when it's done,
    right-click the entry in download manager and choose "Open".)

EXPECTED RESULTS: Ubuntu Software Center installs the .deb.
ACTUAL RESULTS: Ubuntu Software Center opens and shows the error message:
>   Not Found
>   There isn't a software package called "File:" in your current software sources.

NOTE: From the command-line, I get EXPECTED RESULTS if I run
  software-center /tmp/opera_11.10.2092_amd64.deb
but I get ACTUAL RESULTS if I run
  software-center file:///tmp/opera_11.10.2092_amd64.deb
so it looks like this is just a case of software-center not recognizing file:/// URIs (and Firefox depending on sending those).  I don't know if it's possible for us to send actual file paths instead, but that would fix this...

Comment 1

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Attachment: screenshot of error in software-center

Comment 2

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

FWIW, https://launchpad.net/bugs/752376 is filed for this on the software-center side.

Comment 3

[John Drinkwater (:beta)]

Yeah this is an INVALID bug.
Firefox has done this for years, majority of Linux understands file:// IRIs, it’s only recently been a problem on Ubuntu because they made their own installer :/

Comment 4

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to John Drinkwater (:beta) from comment #3)
> Yeah this is an INVALID bug.

(in that it's a bug in software-center, not in Mozilla code)

Agreed. Resolving as such. Further work should happen on https://launchpad.net/bugs/752376

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

For the record, this appears to have been fixed in Ubuntu Quantal (12.10):
 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/752376/comments/9