Re: apt-get dist-upgrade consistently fails
Stephen van Egmond <svanegmond@tinyplanet.ca> writes:
> A. L. Meyers (nospam.look@replyto.because.this.is.invalid) wrote:
>> Hi! After having done "apt-get update", the usual "apt-get
>> dist-upgrade" consistently returns the following error messages after
>> having downloaded the 67 required files:
>>
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> Calculating Upgrade... Done
>> 67 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>> Need to get 0B/24.7MB of archives. After unpacking 6350kB will be used.
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>> File "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges", line 30, in ?
>> import apt_pkg
>> ImportError: No module named apt_pkg
>> E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10
>
> Is apt-listchanges properly installed?
It seems so. Have reinstalled apt-listchanges. Here is the output:
alm@wassern:~$ sudo apt-get install apt-listchanges
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apt-listchanges
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 71 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/36.0kB of archives. After unpacking 157kB will be used.
/bin/sh: line 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: No such file or directory
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package apt-listchanges.
(Reading database ... 131454 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking apt-listchanges (from .../apt-listchanges_2.23_all.deb) ...
Setting up apt-listchanges (2.23) ...
> More to the point, is python-apt installed?
Yes, latest version.
In spite of this, however, the error stated above persists unchanged.
Cannot complete apt-get dist-upgrade.
Lucien
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