[PLUG] Python mess-up

[Patrick "Finn" Robins]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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?
>

For large files a link to a paste at http://pastebin.com/ for example
generally works better and is frindlier to the list.​​


> ​<snip>
>
> This line shows that you are using a 12.04 precise repo ... however​​

> 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
>

this line shows a package is from the 9.04 jaunty release​​.​​

> 'virtualbox-3.0':

 error in Version string '3.0.12-54655_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character in
> revision number
>
<snip>
You should check your internet instructions to see if they included adding
an incorrect repository. You can check your repository settings and remove
all of the Jaunty/9.04 ones and resync, apt-get may fix this. FYI I haven't
used a debian based distro in a while and haven't used Ubuntu in years.
This from memory.
Good Luck.



> 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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