Re: Help...I hosed my system trying to apt-get dist-upgrade SOLVED
On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 08:09:14 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 09:23:48PM -0400, Mark Phillips wrote:
> > 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.
>
> that sounds like it might be a packaging bug. BUt I would think others
> would be reporting it as well. If you see anyone else ask about this,
> then I'd say it warrants a bug report.
I suspect that the problem may have been caused by using python 2.3 to
perform the setup of python 2.5. Even Etch has python 2.4 as the default
version already. Mark, do you know why your system defaulted to python
2.3? Has it been a really long time (years) since the previous upgrade?
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