This is the error that I get on my lenny machine when updating. I have both python 2.4 and 2.5 currently installed. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could give me pointers on rectifying this error.
<SNIP> Setting up python (2.5.2-1) ... running python rtupdate hooks for python2.5... Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/Corpus.py ... File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/Corpus.py", line 82 from __future__ import generators SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/FileCorpus.py ... File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/FileCorpus.py", line 85 from __future__ import generators SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file Compiling /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/message.py ... File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/spambayes/message.py", line 78 from __future__ import generators SyntaxError: from __future__ imports must occur at the beginning of the file pycentral: pycentral updatedefault: error byte-compiling files (49) pycentral updatedefault: error byte-compiling files (49) error running python rtupdate hook pycentral Updating *.pc symlinks for python-gst0.10... dpkg: error processing python (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 4 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hplip: hplip depends on python (>= 2.5); however: Package python is not configured yet. hplip depends on python (<< 2.6); however: Package python is not configured yet. hplip depends on python (>= 2.4.4~c1); however: Package python is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing hplip (--configure): <SNIP> Thanks Seshadri