Package: python2.6-minimal Version: 2.6.1-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable
drone:/home/palfrey# apt-get install python2.6-minimal Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed python2.6-minimal 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 576 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1342kB of archives. After this operation, 4764kB of additional disk space will be used. (Reading database ... 101266 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python2.6-minimal (from .../python2.6-minimal_2.6.1-1_i386.deb) ... new installation of python2.6-minimal; /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages is a directory which is expected a symlink to /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages. please find the package shipping files in /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages and file a bug report to ship these in /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages instead aborting installation of python2.6-minimal dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.6-minimal_2.6.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.6-minimal_2.6.1-1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Two issues: one that /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages is meant to be a link to a /usr/local path and that it's conflicting with the existing folder, which was put there by python-support (0.90.3 installed) -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (400, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages python2.6-minimal depends on: ii libc6 2.9-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime Versions of packages python2.6-minimal recommends: pn python2.6 <none> (no description available) Versions of packages python2.6-minimal suggests: ii binfmt-support 1.2.11 Support for extra binary formats -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
