Package: python3.5-minimal Version: 3.5.3-3 Severity: important Dear Maintainer, When I upgraded my sid machine last week I faced this error:
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding It seems that something broke python3.5-minimal; in fact when I run /usr/bin/python3.5 I get this: Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding LookupError: no codec search functions registered: can't find encoding Current thread 0x00007fb8aeb88700 (most recent call first): Aborted In order to configure the other packages I installed python3.6 and symlinked /usr/bin/python3.6 to /usr/bin/python3. That did the trick; almost: there are a number of packages that depend on python3.5 and don't configure: Errors were encountered while processing: python3-dbus python3-olefile hplip-data python3-gi python3-asn1crypto pgcli apt-listchanges python3-sip python3-cairo python3-ptyprocess python3-dbus.mainloop.pyqt5 hplip-gui python3-cryptography hplip python3-pil:amd64 printer-driver-postscript-hp python3-pyqt5 python3-gi-cairo This is a bit of a nuisance because it involves hplip, so now I can't print from this computer. Apparently even the reportbug program runs python, so it wouldn't work either. -- Fernando Santagata
