Python exception in check_online_updates

Inside the bleachbit window there is also a similar exception:

Error when checking for updates:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/GUI.py", line 1160, in check_online_updates
    updates = Update.check_updates(options.get('check_beta'),
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/Update.py", line 155, in check_updates
    opener.addheaders = [('User-Agent', user_agent())]
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/Update.py", line 87, in user_agent
    dist = platform.dist()
AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'dist'

Greetings,

When I tried running bleachbit within the GUI, I also happened to experience a similar exception. Please see below:

Error when checking for updates:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/GUI.py", line 1160, in check_online_updates
    updates = Update.check_updates(options.get('check_beta'),
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/Update.py", line 155, in check_updates
    opener.addheaders = [('User-Agent', user_agent())]
  File "/usr/share/bleachbit/bleachbit/Update.py", line 87, in user_agent
    dist = platform.dist()
AttributeError: module 'platform' has no attribute 'dist'

Please advise.

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

This was fixed in BleachBit 4.0.0 with this pull request https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/pull/826

Download the fixed BleachBit .deb package here https://www.bleachbit.org/download/linux . (If you do not see a package Ubuntu 20.04, use the package for Ubuntu 19.10)

This bug is fixed in BleachBit 4.0.0 indeed.
Thanks for the fix!

It would be nice to have it fixed in Ubuntu focal, too...

Laurent: Ubuntu generally does not update packages, so its packages for BleachBit are often behind. For example, Focal will always have BleachBit 3.9, Eoan will also have BleachBit 2.2, and so on. This policy has its pros and cons, but that's how it is.

This bug was fixed in the package bleachbit - 4.4.2-1

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bleachbit (4.4.2-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Team upload

  [ Fabio Fantoni ]
  * New upstream release (Closes: #958344, #970229, #974530, #994094)
    (LP: #1957053, #1875809, #1933289)
  * Bump debhelper-compat to 13
  * d/control: add missed dependency gir1.2-notify-0.7
  * update d/copyright
  * d/control: specify that rules don't require root

  [ Jeremy Bicha ]
  * debian/control: Depend on pkexec

 -- Fabio Fantoni <email address hidden> Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:55:46 -0400