RE: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

["Mark Phillips" <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>]

I don't have a man entry for apt-file. What is it and how do I use it to
solve this problem??

thanks!

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:01 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade

On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 02:07:09PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have a Debian testing system and I ran apt-get update and apt-get
> 
> dist-upgrade. I now have this problem with python and all packages 
> that
> 
> depend on python - they cannot be installed (see rhytmbox example
> 
> below). 
> 
>  
> 
> Setting up python (2.5.2-1) ...
> 
> running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5...
> 
> INFO: using old version '/usr/bin/python2.3'
> 
> file does not exist: 
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki
> 
> file does not
> 
> exist: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/wxGlade
> 

for what it's worth, for the next time this happens, apt-file is your
friend.

A