[Bug 1060507] Re: Opaque error message "Installing packages by files isn't supported"

[Iain Lane]

Uploaded to saucy/unapproved

** Changed in: sessioninstaller (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => In Progress

** Changed in: sessioninstaller (Ubuntu)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Iain Lane (laney)

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Title:
  Opaque error message "Installing packages by files isn't supported"

Status in “sessioninstaller” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  I tried to burn a video DVD with Brasero.  I lined up some mpg videos to add, put a blank DVD in the drive, and clicked "Burn".  Then I got an error message saying:
  "Installing packages by files isn't supported
  "This method hasn't yet been implemented."

  Please note that this bug report isn't about my inability to burn
  DVDs.  It's about the error message being surprisingly unhelpful, and
  apparently unrelated to what I was trying to do at the time.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: sessioninstaller 0.20+bzr128-0ubuntu1.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-31.50-generic 3.2.28
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Wed Oct  3 11:51:52 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/session-installer
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20110211.1)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
  SourcePackage: sessioninstaller
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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