Comment 6 for bug 347327

I tried it and it works. It's quite trivial (for a developer) to test it. :)
These are the steps for gnome:

sudo apt-get -y install packagekit-gnome
cd
wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/26683813/packagekit-utf8-fix.patch -O packagekit-utf8-fix.patch
cd /usr/lib
sudo patch -p0 < $HOME/packagekit-utf8-fix.patch

cd
mkdir -p "töölaud"
wget http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/t/themonospot/themonospot_0.7.1.1-2_all.deb -O "töölaud/themonospot_0.7.1.1-2_all.deb"
gpk-install-local-file "töölaud/themonospot_0.7.1.1-2_all.deb"