Re: [User Question] python2.7 uninstallable while upgrade to Wheezy
* tech mailinglists <mailinglists.tech@gmail.com>, 2013-05-12, 01:16:
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages is a directory which is expected a
symlink to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages. please find the
package shipping files in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages and file a
bug report to ship these in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages instead
aborting installation of python2.7-minimal
Admittedly, that's not a very helpful error message, for many reasons:
- On a correctly configured system, /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages is
not a symlink. It doesn't exist at all.
- Finding packages shipping files in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages is
very easy (just use dpkg -S), so the preinst script could have done this
for you.
- It's not necessarily a package shipping files in site-packages that is
the culprit. The directory might have been put there by something else.
One could also wonder why is this check necessary in the first place.
It's not like existence of the directory in question negatively affects
python2.7 in any way.
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Jakub Wilk
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