Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-25 Thread David Wright
On Thu 25 Apr 2019 at 04:40:12 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/25/2019 03:15 AM, Curt wrote: > > On 2019-04-24, Mark Allums wrote: > > > > > > > > I see the error message but do not know what to do. > > > > Thanks for pointers. > > > > > > > Try rearranging your python(s) in your PATH.

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-25 Thread David
On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 07:43, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > Preparing to unpack .../galternatives_0.13.5+nmu4+deb9u1_all.deb ... > > > File "/usr/bin/pyclean", line 63 > > > except (IOError, OSError), e: > > > ^ > > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 18:15, Curt wrote: > On

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-25 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/25/2019 03:15 AM, Curt wrote: On 2019-04-24, Mark Allums wrote: I see the error message but do not know what to do. Thanks for pointers. Try rearranging your python(s) in your PATH. I.e., swap py2 with py3. Or possibly your py3 version needs to be downgraded. Something about your

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-25 Thread Curt
On 2019-04-24, Mark Allums wrote: >> >> I see the error message but do not know what to do. >> Thanks for pointers. >> > > Try rearranging your python(s) in your PATH. I.e., swap py2 with py3. > > Or possibly your py3 version needs to be downgraded. > > Something about your python versions. >

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-24 Thread Mark Allums
On 4/24/19 4:42 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 04/24/2019 03:42 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote: On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 10:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have repeatedly received the following error message: E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should  reinstall it

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-24 Thread Richard Owlett
On 04/24/2019 03:42 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote: On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 10:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: I have repeatedly received the following error message: E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration I don't recall

Re: Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-24 Thread Thomas D Dial
On Wed, 2019-04-24 at 10:42 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > I have repeatedly received the following error message: > > E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; > > you should reinstall it before attempting configuration > > I don't recall what triggered it last week. Today

Synaptic error message -- how to respond

2019-04-24 Thread Richard Owlett
I have repeatedly received the following error message: E: galternatives: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration I don't recall what triggered it last week. Today I wanted to install "apt-rdepends" which displayed the above error