On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 4:16 PM, Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]>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 <[email protected] > >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" <[email protected]> > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Patrick "Finn" Robins Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
