Public bug reported: It seems that the installation of python3-meep at some point depends on the python-meep package. Platform is Ubuntu 20.04 on amd64. Could be a broken package (just missing the '3' in the package name somewhere?).It fails with the following error:
The following NEW packages will be installed: python3-meep 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 636 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,225 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 python3-meep amd64 1.12.0-2build2 [636 kB] Fetched 636 kB in 1s (787 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package python3-meep. (Reading database ... 862400 files and directories current ly installed.) Preparing to unpack .../python3-meep_1.12.0-2build2_amd64. deb ... Unpacking python3-meep (1.12.0-2build2) ... Setting up python3-meep (1.12.0-2build2) ... dpkg-query: package 'python-meep' is not installed Use dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list archiv e files contents. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 289, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 262, in main options.force, options.optimize, e_patterns) File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 154, in compile for fn, versions_to_compile in filter_files(files, e_p atterns, versions): File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 109, in filter_files for fn in files: File "/usr/share/python/debpython/files.py", line 77, in filter_out_ext for fn in files: File "/usr/share/python/debpython/namespace.py", line 77 , in add_namespace_files for fn in files: File "/usr/share/python/debpython/files.py", line 69, in filter_public for fn in files: File "/usr/share/python/debpython/files.py", line 53, in from_package raise Exception("cannot get content of %s" % package_n ame) Exception: cannot get content of python-meep dpkg: error processing package python3-meep (--configure): installed python3-meep package post-installation script s ubprocess returned error exit status 1 Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.31-0ubuntu9) ... Errors were encountered while processing: python3-meep E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) ** Affects: meep (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: meep (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Tags: meep python3-meep -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1883149 Title: python3-meep package fails to install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meep/+bug/1883149/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
