Cannot update anything

[Tyrfing]

Hello, I am currently running Ubuntu 8.04, and I cannot upgrade any program. Whenever I try to run an update, I always get this error message:


E: python2.5-minimal : subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? Or what other information I can retrieve to help diagnose this problem? Thanks so much!

-Tyrfing

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[geekity2]

Hi Tyrfing,

did you run the upgrade through the gui or using apt/aptitude? If you run
sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade it may give you some options to fix this...

[Tyrfing]

I tried that command, this was the result...











Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up python2.5-minimal (2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1) ...
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5...
pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: package python-imaging: not overwriting local files
pycentral rtinstall: package python-imaging: not overwriting local files
dpkg: error processing python2.5-minimal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
python2.5-minimal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up python2.5-minimal (2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1) ...
Linking and byte-compiling packages for runtime python2.5...
pycentral: pycentral rtinstall: package python-imaging: not overwriting local files
pycentral rtinstall: package python-imaging: not overwriting local files
dpkg: error processing python2.5-minimal (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2.5:
python2.5 depends on python2.5-minimal (= 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1); however:
Package python2.5-minimal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python2.5 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2.5-dev:
python2.5-dev depends on python2.5 (= 2.5.2-2ubuntu4.1); however:
Package python2.5 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing python2.5-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
python2.5-minimal
python2.5
python2.5-dev
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done

[jrox717]

It seems like the problem has to do with the package python2.5 and related packages. I'm not sure if this is what you need to do, but I would try to remove it.

sudo apt-get purge python2.5
(Purge deletes all config files in addition to the package itself.) If needed, also manually get rid of python2.5-minimal or python2.6-dev

[Soul-Sing]

sudo apt-get remove python2.5-minimal

sudo apt-get update

[lukeiamyourfather]

Have you modified or removed the original Python installation, for example installing a new version of Python over the original?

[emax]

sudo apt-get remove python2.5-minimal

sudo apt-get update

Same problem here.

Running these suggested commands wants to remove half my system!!



This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
python-minimal python2.5-minimal (due to python-minimal)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 245 to remove and 16 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 662MB disk space will be freed.
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