Public bug reported: 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, via 'lsb_release -rd' or System -> About Ubuntu
erik@virtubuntu:~% lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 2) The version of the package you are using, via 'apt-cache policy pkgname' or by checking in Software Center erik@virtubuntu:~% apt-cache policy python-software-properties | grep Installed Installed: 0.92.28 3) What you expected to happen The softwareproperties.ppa module should successfully import 4) What happened instead The softwareproperties.ppa module fails to import unless python-pycurl is also installed. See the below shell output for an example. erik@virtubuntu:~% sudo apt-get install python-software-properties Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: python-software-properties 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/22.9 kB of archives. After this operation, 145 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package python-software-properties. (Reading database ... 65535 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python-software-properties (from .../python-software-properties_0.92.28_all.deb) ... Setting up python-software-properties (0.92.28) ... 1 erik@virtubuntu:~% python -c 'import softwareproperties.ppa' Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/softwareproperties/ppa.py", line 46, in <module> import pycurl ImportError: No module named pycurl 1 erik@virtubuntu:~% sudo apt-get install python-pycurl Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: libcurl4-gnutls-dev python-pycurl-dbg The following NEW packages will be installed: python-pycurl 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded. Need to get 0 B/48.8 kB of archives. After this operation, 216 kB of additional disk space will be used. Selecting previously unselected package python-pycurl. (Reading database ... 65561 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python-pycurl (from .../python-pycurl_7.19.0-5ubuntu8_amd64.deb) ... Setting up python-pycurl (7.19.0-5ubuntu8) ... erik@virtubuntu:~% python -c 'import softwareproperties.ppa' erik@virtubuntu:~% ** Affects: software-properties (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Summary changed: - python-software-properties saucy package is missing a depenency on python-pycurl + python-software-properties saucy package is missing a dependency on python-pycurl -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1249080 Title: python-software-properties saucy package is missing a dependency on python-pycurl To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-properties/+bug/1249080/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs