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



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 wonder though, what do

dpkg -l kiki

and 

dpkg -l spe 

show?

> 
> 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.

glad to help. 

A

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