[PLUG] Python mess-up

[Denis Heidtmann]

I have python functioning, but some commands still cause seg faults.  I can
do useful work without those commands, so this has become a matter of
clean-up rather than an emergency.

I should point out, if it is not already obvious, that I am a neophyte at
this.

The response from the apt-get command consists of 47 lines.  Below is a
snippet.  Shall I cram all 47 lines in here?

parents at R2D4:~$ sudo apt-get install python-numpy python-scipy libblas-dev
liblapack-dev gfortran
[sudo] password for parents:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python-numpy is already the newest version.
python-numpy set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatica...
...
Get:10 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe python-scipy
amd64 0.9.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2 [7,300 kB]
Fetched 50.4 MB in 10min 29s (80.1 kB/s)
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 59538 package
'virtualbox-3.0':
 error in Version string '3.0.12-54655_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character in
revision number
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 59539 package
'virtualbox-3.0':
 error in Config-Version string '3.0.12-54655_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid
character in revision number
dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 61291
package 'virtualbox-3.0':
 error in Version string '3.0.12-54655_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character in
revision number
Selecting previously unselected package gfortran-4.6.
(Reading database ... 1224879 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gfortran-4.6 (from .../gfortran-4.6_4.6.3-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb) ...
...
Setting up python-scipy (0.9.0+dfsg1-1ubuntu2) ...
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 59725
package 'virtualbox-3.0':
 error in Version string '3.0.12-54655_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character in
revision number
dpkg-query: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 59726
package 'virtualbox-3.0':
 error in Config-Version string '3.0.12-54655_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid
character in revision number

I do not know why virtual box appears in this listing.  I have not tested
to see if it has been affected.

Thanks,
-Denis




On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Patrick "Finn" Robins <13.finn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Could we see the generated text. A link to it would be useful to diagnose.
> On Jan 20, 2014 1:08 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I have been trying to learn Python.  In ubuntu 12.04, using the default
> > python install I felt I was missing some modules.  I followed some
> apt-get
> > instructions on the web.  But that generated many errors.  So I thought I
> > would go back and start over by uninstalling all Python stuff.  Then I
> got
> > the message "If you uninstall python future updates will not include new
> > items in Minimal core of Ubuntu set.  Are you sure you want to continue?"
> >  It looks like many routines use the standard python installation.  In
> the
> > window under the message is a listing of perhaps 200 routines.
> >
> > How might I clean this up?  I saved the text generated by the apt-get
> > install I performed, but I do not know what it all means.
> >
> > Help!
> >
> > -Denis
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