Re: Broken package?

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Antonio Luiz Pacifico <alpacifico@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday I tried to upgrade my AMD64 machine. I'm using "testing" distribution
> (squeeze). There is no way regarding package "python2.6-minimal" to be
> installed. No matter what I do, as long as "apt-get -f install", etc... always
> I got the following message:
>
> Unpacking python2.6-minimal (de .../python2.6-minimal_2.6.4-4_amd64.deb) ...
> new installation of python2.6-minimal; /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages is a
> directory
> which is expected a symlink to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages.
> please find the package shipping files in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages and
> file a bug report to ship these in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages instead
> aborting installation of python2.6-minimal
>
> Please, suggestions!
>
> Thank you,
> Antonio

I suggest you ask dpkg for the package owning files in that directory,
file bugs, pruge it and then install python2.6-minimal again.

MfG
        Goswin