Bug 459870 - Extremely poor error message - Local Install Failed - means package already installed
Summary: Extremely poor error message - Local Install Failed - means package already i...
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-packagekit
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Robin Norwood
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 460199
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-08-23 10:25 UTC by Bevis King
Modified: 2008-08-28 17:15 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2008-08-27 18:21:03 UTC
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Description Bevis King 2008-08-23 10:25:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
Gnome Package Kit gives a very poor error message when you right click install a package that is already installed.  The message you get is:
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Local Install Failed
Installing the local file failed.
More information is available in the detailed report.

V More Details:
Can't install /home/user/Download/xyz-tools-0.8.1-1.fc9.noarch.rpm
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If you check with:
rpm -q xyz-tools

you find it's already installed!

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-packagekit-0.1.12-12.20080430.fc9.x86_64

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Try to install a package that is already installed by right clicking and
choosing "Install Package".
  
Actual results:
Very misleading error message.

Expected results:
Package is already installed.  Possibly mentioning if the version numbers are the same or different.

Additional info:
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2008-08-27 15:49:49 UTC 
Robin is working on this bug now. I'll merge this into F9 as a backport when he's done. Nice to see another Surrey University student - I used to be ee21rh.uk!
Comment 2 Robin Norwood 2008-08-27 16:16:20 UTC 
This should be fixed in HEAD now, Richard.
Comment 3 Richard Hughes 2008-08-27 18:21:03 UTC 
Thanks Robin.
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