Hello Rohan,
I can't thank you enough but believe it or not, you guys helped me
tremendously on the last posting. It was basically a symbolic link issue that
was reeked havoc on my system. After reinstating the symbolic link to where I
had it as before and deleting the file that the symbolic link created I was
able to update, as I was not able to do this before, as a result of python
being broken, and then adding the repository link graphically using the update
manager!! Thanks so much for all your help, now I know how to do it through
the Terminal!!!
Sent from Nevins Duret's Mobile
On Apr 28, 2011, at 4:26 AM, Rohan Sachdeva <[email protected]> wrote:
> I know this was a while ago but you can add the ppa by going to the terminal
> and typing:
>
> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:irie/python3.2
>
> then sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install python3.2
>
> Rohan
>
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Walter Prins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On 9 April 2011 19:45, Nevins Duret <[email protected]> wrote:
> I can't thank you enough for your help. Yes, I usually use the Synaptic
> Package Manager, however in this case, Python version 3.2 is not on the
> Synaptic package Manager. This is why I chose to build it from source. As
> far as what I think is causing this when I go in the
>
> No problem.
>
> Terminal and type:
>
> sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python/python3.2 python
> /opt/py32/bin/python3.2 1
>
> I get this as an error message:
>
> update-alternatives: renaming python link from /usr/bin/python to
> /usr/bin/python/python3.2.
> update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative
> /opt/py32/bin because link group python is broken.
> update-alternatives: error: unable to make /usr/bin/python/python3.2.dpkg-tmp
> a symlink to /etc/alternatives/python: No such file or directory
>
> I would expect that "update-alternatives" would have trouble (on the first
> line) because /usr/bin/python is not a link anymore (but instead a folder)
> based on your previous posts.
>
> So, please go and inspect the /usr/bin/python folder and see what if
> anything's inside. If it's not empty you need to see what is in fact in it
> and hopefully get rid of it or move it out of the way. Once it's empty, then
> just delete the /usr/bin/python folder (you'll have to be root or use "sudo")
> and afterwards either recreate a link to the default python interpreter
> and/or try the update-alternatives command again. (To manually restore the
> default python link, first execute "which python2.6" which should output
> "/usr/bin/python2.6", then execute "sudo ln -s /usr/bin/python2.6
> /usr/bin/python" which should restore the link to the default python. After
> doing this "update-alternatives" should have less trouble redirecting the
> /usr/bin/python link.
>
> I however want to reiterate that your problems, especially fixing your OS,
> will be better dealt with on the Ubuntu community forums.
>
> Rohan, thanks for posting about that PPA, wasn't aware of it!
>
> Walter
>
>
>
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