update-manager in dapper needs to depend on python-vte (was: "can't find DistUpgradeViewGtk" when upgrading dapper->edgy)

Thanks for your bugreport.

Can you please check if you have the package 'python-vte' installed? If not, please install it and try again.

Thanks,
 Michael

Meanwhile I upgraded to Edgy using the command line.
However python-vte is currently not installed, thus I assume it was'nt installed on my Dapper system.

Shouldn't update-manager depend on it if it is required?

I am an Ubuntu fan but this bug in the dapper -> edgy distribution upgrade really, really, really annoyed me. If upgrade-manager -c depends on python-vte then it should test for the presence of this package before starting -- and tell people to install it if it is not there.

installing python-vte does fix the problem.

This should have been a blocker bug not an undecided.

Michael, you may want to make the deb depend on python-vte

see also Bug #56627 , Bug #66376

Googling I saw quite some people hitting this issue

This is a real duplicate of Bug #66376

When I tried to upgrade to Edgy, faced with the same problem. Then I installed 'python vte' using 'Synaptic' - took only 1.5 hours, now I have Edgy on my machine!

But I beleve, if update process is dependent on 'python vte' it should look for it, rather than throwing an error.

Note: I installed Breezy, then upgraded to Dapper and from there I upgraded to Edgy.

I also tried to update to Edgy by the command "sudo sh /cdrom/cdromupgrade". However, I got the same error as the people above (can't find DistUpgradeViewGtk). After reading this thread I installed "python-vte" in the hope it could solve my problem. Unfortunatly it didn't change anything.

Hello, I just ran into this issue. Installing python-vte fixed it.
This seems like it should be an easy fix to change a dependancy. I would like to note that the last comment was 1 month ago, and this bug is marked high priority.

Ran into the issue as well. I'm running edgy now, but this was an ugly hiccup in what otherwise was a very slick upgrade.

+1 to upgrade the priority.

Just encountered again this bug (again) whilst upgrading from Edgy to Dapper. The fix (a simple one too) has been known for over 6 months now - why hasn't it been resolved?

I guess you meant edgy -> feisty, right? Maybe you can increase attentaion if you sent Michael Vogt (https://bugs.launchpad.net/~mvo) a mail.

Sorry, I meant Dapper to Edgy, and then I'm going to upgrade Edgy to Feisty :-) I'd always been told to do it in stages, a release at a time.

I'll mail Michael and see what he says.

Moving milestone.

This is already fixed in gutsy.

Easy fix for dapper. Michael, can you please upload this to dapper-proposed?

Uploaded into dapper-proposed

Accepted to dapper-proposed, thank you! Please test.

Dependencies are correct now with the dapper-proposed package, considering verification-done.

Copied to dapper-updates.