Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 14.10, installations of various packages fail due to package- data-downloader trying to remove a file that does not exist. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/msttcorefonts/+bug/1354709 for examples when trying to install the msttcorefonts package (see bug descriptions) and when trying to install the wine-browser-installer package (see comments #10 and #11) 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 /update-notifier/package-data-downloader: os.remove(f) with the two lines if os.path.exists(dest_file): os.remove(f) With this change I can install wine-browser-installer without error. Otherwise I cannot. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: update-notifier 3.157 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-30.40-generic 3.16.7-ckt3 Uname: Linux 3.16.0-30-generic i686 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia 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) ** Affects: update-notifier (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug i386 third-party-packages utopic -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1425118 Title: package-data-downloader tries to remove non-existant file, failing with Errno 2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-notifier/+bug/1425118/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
