RE: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade SOLVED
I think I solved the problem. The files were missing, but also found.
This is what I found:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
/usr/share/pycentral/spe/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
../../../../kiki/site-packages/kiki
However, there was no ../../../../kiki/site-packages/kiki. However, I
did find the following:
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kiki/
so I setup
/usr/share/pycentral/spe/site-packages/_spe/plugins/kiki ->
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kiki/
(replaced the sym link to ../../../../kiki/site-packages/kiki with
/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/kiki/)
The same was true for wxGlade, although it is called wxglade in
python2.5.
After making those two sym links, dpkg --configure -a completed without
any errors.
I just ran an apt-get update and an apt-get upgrade with no errors.
So, I think I am out of the woods.
Thanks for your ideas that pushed me to look in the right direction.
Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Sackville-West [mailto:andrew@farwestbilliards.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:43 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 03:20:55PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>> Try to run 'apt-get install python-central'
>
> I tried it, and get this error:
>
> narwhale:/home/mark# apt-get install python-central
> E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a'
> to correct the problem.
> narwhale:/home/mark#
>
> I can't do anything with apt now.
>
you'll have to bypass apt for the moment, though how you got into this
position is a mystery to me.
> 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
I'm guessing that the root of the problem is these missing files, but I
know very little of python packaging. The two missing files are from the
spe packages, but nothing seems to depend on spe, so I'm guessing it's a
red herring.
You might try
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/pycentral<tab>
where <tab> gets you the list of available .debs. See if you can get
pycentral to reinstall that way and then try the configure thing again.
hth
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