Package: pychecker
Version: 0.8.14-5
Severity: normal
I received the following error:
Setting up pychecker (0.8.14-5) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/pychecker.postinst: line 45:
/usr/bin//etc/alternatives/python: No such file or directory
Line 29 of pychecker.postinst has a comment that is not true:
PYTHON=`readlink /usr/bin/${i}` # note: returns basename
It returns the value of the symbolic link which may point to another directory.
Two examples follow:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/mailq
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Jan 12 15:13 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-3.3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Feb 28 08:44 /usr/bin/mailq -> ../sbin/sendmail
$ readlink /usr/bin/gcc
gcc-3.3
$ readlink /usr/bin/mailq
../sbin/sendmail
Because I set up the following:
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.1 20
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.2 20
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.3 20
the result of a readlink is
$ readlink /usr/bin/python
/etc/alternatives/python
So I added the following code to finish the installation:
if [ "`dirname ${PYTHON}`" = "/etc/alternatives" ]
then
PYTHON=`readlink ${PYTHON}`
PYTHON=`basename ${PYTHON}`
fi
Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
Carlos Hanson
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Versions of packages pychecker depends on:
ii python 2.3.5-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python2.2 2.2.3dfsg-1 An interactive high-level object-o
ii python2.3 2.3.5-1 An interactive high-level object-o
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