Re: Broken Zope, Python, xbase-clients, etc

[Russ Cook <russcook@flash.net>]

Thanks for the continued help.  Attached are the results of
'whereis python' and 'ls -l /usr/bin/python'.  The symlink
points to python2.3.  And yet, the zope pre-removal script
encounters errors in python1.5, which makes me think it is
explicitly seeking and calling routines from the earlier version.
More thoughts?

Thanks much,
   Russ

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Russell Shaw wrote:

> Russ Cook wrote:
> > Hi Russell,
> >   I ran apt-get update, then apt-get install python.  I did
> > not specify a version.  The system stated I am already at
> > the latest version.  I then ran apt-get install --reinstall --fix-broken
> > zope.  The log looks the same.  If you still have a log of the
> > session I sent previously, please notice that the python routines
> > which are run seem to be from /usr/lib/python1.5, even though python2.3
> > is installed.  Does Zope explicitly look for version 1.5?  I'm really
> > at a loss as to what is going on here.
>
> On my system:
>
> whereis python
>
>    python: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python2.1
>            /etc/python2.1 /etc/python2.2 /usr/lib/python2.1
>            /usr/lib/python2.2 /usr/include/python2.1 /usr/include/python2.2
>            /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
>
> ls -l /usr/bin/python
>
>    /usr/bin/python -> python2.2
>
> Your system may have: /usr/bin/python -> python1.5
>
> If so, symlink it to point to python2.2.
>
> The other way is the debian alternatives system. You can have multiple
> versions of a tool, such as gcc-2.95.4, gcc-3.3, etc, but one gets called
> by the generic name of "gcc".
>
> man update-alternatives
>
> rm /usr/bin/python
> rm /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
>
> ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonbin /usr/bin/python
> ln -s /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
>
> update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python pythonbin /usr/bin/python2.2 20 \
>                      --slave /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz pythonman.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz
>
> Now check.
>
> ls -l /usr/bin/python
>
>    /usr/bin/python -> /etc/alternatives/pythonbin
>
> ls -l /etc/alternatives/pythonbin
>
>    /etc/alternatives/pythonbin -> /usr/bin/python2.2
>
> ls -l /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz
>
>    /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz -> /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz
>
> ls -l /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz
>
>    /etc/alternatives/pythonman.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/python2.2.1.gz
>
>
>
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Script started on Tue 09 Sep 2003 10:57:13 AM CDT
russ@p90:~$ whereis python

python: /usr/bin/python2.3 /usr/bin/python2.2 /usr/bin/python2.1 /usr/bin/python1.5 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/python2.0 /etc/python2.1 /etc/python1.5 /etc/python2.3 /etc/python2.2 /usr/lib/python2.2 /usr/lib/python1.5 /usr/lib/python2.1 /usr/lib/python2.3 /usr/lib/python2.0 /usr/local/lib/python2.0 /usr/local/lib/python1.5 /usr/local/lib/python2.1 /usr/local/lib/python2.2 /usr/local/lib/python2.3 /usr/include/python2.2 /usr/include/python2.3 /usr/include/python1.5 /usr/share/man/man1/python.1.gz

russ@p90:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/python

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 2003-09-05 18:52 /usr/bin/python -> python2.3

russ@p90:~$ 
Script done on Tue 09 Sep 2003 10:57:59 AM CDT