KPackageKit not able to search for packages. Error: ascii codec

[bologne]

Good Morning,

I'm having a little trouble with KPackageKit not being able to search for any packages. It's displaying the following error:

Error Type: Error Value: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe2 in position 423: ordinal not in range(128) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1952, in main() File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1949, in main run(args, options.single) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 1911, in run backend.dispatcher(args) File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 636, in dispatcher self.dispatch_command(args[0], args[1:]) File : /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/packagekit/backend.py, line 588, in dispatch_command self.search_details(options, searchterms) File : /usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/apt/aptBackend.py, line 571, in search_details if needle in pkg.name or needle in haystack:

Anyone come across this before, or know of a fix?

Cheers

[askrieger]

Re: KPackageKit not able to search for packages. Error: ascii codec

The fix is to stop using kpackagekit. It is not mature enough to be useful for normal users.

Start a konsole (K > Applications > Konsole). Enter the command: "sudo apt-get install synaptic".
Enter your password when requested. You will be asked to install a large number of other
packages as well. Unless you gave Linux only minimal space, when you installed, agree to do
so. In the future, Synaptic will appear on your menu. It is a MUCH more mature package
manager than kpackagekit.

If this does not resolve your problem, someone will be forced to read your error message