Same problem here - I have had this issue over the last few days on Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 6.
Whenever I double click on a *.deb file on the desktop and try and install, I get the below error (but in Chinese, not english) dpkg: 在<包状态和进度文件描述符> 时，无法读取文件描述符的标志位: 错误的文件描述符 dpkg: unable to read filedescriptor flags for <package status and progress file descriptor>: Bad file descriptor Let me know if there is anything I can do to help get this fixed, in the meantime, to install individual DEB files I am using the following command: sudo dpkg -i my-file.deb This seems to work fine as a temporary workaround. -- bad file descriptor on .deb install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/388953 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
