Thank you very much indeed Florian for your detailed and clear reply -
that seems to have fixed the problem.
Kind regards
Sam
2009/4/29 Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+deb...@icfo.es>:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 14:19:28 +1200, Sam wrote:
>> Okay this is ungraceful entrance to this mailing list but I hope that
>> someone can help. I seem to have butchered my default Python install
>> somewhat. The server is running Debian 'etch' and I wanted to make
>> python2.5 the default install so I decided to link python2.5 to python
>> in /usr/bin?
>
> I would not do this; the expected default version is 2.4 on Etch. You
> can explicitly refer to your desired version of python in your own code
> without changing the default.
>
>> The present state of /usr/bin:
>> dev3:/usr/bin# ls -la python*
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1015264 2008-10-23 08:53 python
>> -rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1015264 2008-10-23 08:53 python2.4
>> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1276 2008-10-23 08:53 python2.4-config
>
> IIRC, /usr/bin/python should be a symlink to /usr/bin/python2.4 on Etch.
>
> [...]
>
>> Setting up python2.4-minimal (2.4.4-3+etch2) ...
>> Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.4...
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>
> [...]
>
>> File "/usr/share/pycentral-data/pyversions.py", line 120, in
>> default_version
>> _default_version = link = os.readlink('/usr/bin/python')
>> OSError: [Errno 22] Invalid argument: '/usr/bin/python'
>
> pyversions.py tries to follow the /usr/bin/python symlink to find out
> what the default version is; this fails if /usr/bin/python is not a
> symlink.
>
>> dpkg: error processing python2.4-minimal (--configure):
>> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
>
> [ snip: this causes problems for all packages that depend on
> python2.4-minimal ]
>
> The first thing to do is to restore the /usr/bin/python symlink and then
> run "apt-get install -f". Note that the symlink should use the direct
> relative path to python2.4, without any directory components in it.
>
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