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--- Begin Message ---Package: python-support Version: 0.8.6 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable This is part of the output from doing anything with apt-get (started after I installed GIMP). Setting up python-support (0.8.6) ... Usage: update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package_directory [...] update-python-modules [-v] [-c] package.dirs [...] update-python-modules [-v] [-a|-f|-p] update-python-modules: error: Trying to overwrite pygtk.pth which is already provided by /usr/share/python-support/python-gobject dpkg: error processing python-support (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 As a result of this, I tried to install reportbug-ng so that I could report this and now I get LOTS of dependency errors because python-support is flagged as not being configured yet. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages python-support depends on: ii dpkg 1.14.22 Debian package management system ii python 2.5.2-2 An interactive high-level object-o python-support recommends no packages. python-support suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Le mercredi 29 octobre 2008 à 02:11 +1100, Tim Lyth a écrit : > `dpkg -L python-gtk2 | grep pth` returns no matching lines - so > python-gtk2 didn't put /usr/share/python-support/python-gtk2/pygtk.pth > there. > `dpkg -S python-gtk2/pygtk.pth` and `dpkg > -S /usr/share/python-support/python-gtk2/pygtk.pth` state no file > found. > > After removing /usr/share/python-support/python-gtk{,2}/, I was able > to successfully complete `apt-get upgrade` - I removed the python-gtk2 > package, but files were left hanging around in both directories, and > the python-gtk package wasn't installed either. Indeed, you can safely reinstall python-gtk2 after purging this directory and it should go fine. > It's been a few years since I did a full re-install of Debian on this > system and this may have been a time-bomb waiting to go off because I > vaguely remember having to muck around with apt in a rather forceful > manner to get something working. Yes, this may be the result of --force options passed to dpkg at the time of upgrading pygtk from 2.8 to 2.10. I’m closing this bug. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : We are debian.org. Lower your prices, surrender your code. `. `' We will add your hardware and software distinctiveness to `- our own. Resistance is futile.
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