[Bug 1756238] Re: gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags

[Mathew Hodson]

I think it makes more sense to use bug 1946499 to track the issue
happening in Ubuntu 21.10. The patches in this bug landed two years ago,
so it would be confusing to reopen it.

** No longer affects: gdebi (Ubuntu)

** Tags removed: impish

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Title:
  gdebi-gtk broken in 18.04 error: unable to read filedescriptor flags

Status in vte2.91 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in vte2.91 source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  When using gdebi-gtk to install a .deb the install fails with the
  message:-

  dpkg: error: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status
  and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor

  This only occurs via the gdebi-gtk GUI front end, packages install perfectly if done via the CLI with:
  sudo gdebi /path/to/packagename.deb

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