[ale] smart update errors

[Paul Cartwright]

anyone know how to fix this problem???
I have done a smart update, then tried smart upgrade.
I can do all the packages except for audacity and kavi2svcd. when I try 
either of those I get this error:

# smart install audacity
Loading cache...
Updating cache...               
######################################## [100%]

Computing transaction...

Upgrading packages (1):
  audacity-1.2.4b-26.pm.0 at i586

6.0MB of package files are needed. 12.6MB will be used.

Confirm changes? (Y/n):

Committing transaction...
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
f9558872
Trying to import the key bfb4e362f9558872 from subkeys.pgp.net...
gpg: requesting key F9558872 from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: key F9558872: "Marcus Huewe (RPM signing key) 
<marcus at links2linux.de>" not changed
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:              unchanged: 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 194, in ?
    main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/bin/smart", line 167, in main
    exitcode = iface.run(opts.command, opts.argv)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interface.py", line 53, 
in run
    result = _command.main(self._ctrl, opts)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/commands/install.py", 
line 173, in main
    ctrl.commitTransaction(trans, confirm=confirm)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 464, 
in commitTransaction
    return self.commitChangeSet(trans.getChangeSet(), caching, confirm)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/control.py", line 518, 
in commitChangeSet
    pmclass().commit(pmcs, pkgpaths)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/backends/rpm/pm.py", 
line 202, in commit
    if iface.askYesNo(popen_out, False):
  
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/smart/interfaces/text/interface.py", 
line 65, in askYesNo
    res = raw_input(mask % question).strip().lower()
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 
435: ordinal not in range(128)
linux:/home/pbc #                          
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800