Trying to install the latest PHP5 packages and so I add the repo (
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/php5) I need and this is the outcome:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/threading.py", line 740, in _bootstrap_inner
self.run()
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 141, in run
self.add_ppa_signing_key(self.ppa_path)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 234, in add_ppa_signing_key
tmp_export_keyring, signing_key_fingerprint, tmp_keyring_dir):
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 186, in _verify_fingerprint
got_fingerprints = self._get_fingerprints(keyring, keyring_dir)
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 178, in _get_fingerprints
output = subprocess.check_output(cmd, universal_newlines=True)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 516, in check_output
output, unused_err = process.communicate()
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 811, in communicate
stdout = _eintr_retry_call(self.stdout.read)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/subprocess.py", line 456, in _eintr_retry_call
return func(*args)
File "/usr/lib/python3.2/encodings/ascii.py", line 26, in decode
return codecs.ascii_decode(input, self.errors)[0]
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc5 in position 92: ordinal not in range(128)
Running on Ubuntu 12.04 Server
Best Answer
The software-properties-common is buggy, so if have a time, please report this as a bug in software-properties-common.
A better workaround was pointed out in the issue tracker that uses specific unicode locale when adding the repository