Public bug reported:
Hello everyone,
I wanted to be able to switch in between python 2.5 and 2.5 so I did the
following (since it wasn't done for me when I installed python 2.5 on
karmic, which is what it should have done in my opinion):
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.5 1
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/python python /usr/bin/python2.6 2
sudo update-alternatives --config python
Now when I try to update any python packages, I get this :
ValueError: /usr/bin/python does not match the python default version.
It must be reset to point to python2.6
I checked with update-alternatives and it's set to python 2.6 (I tried
auto and manual) and I did this :
$ ls -la /usr/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2009-12-17 18:35 /usr/bin/python ->
/etc/alternatives/python
$ ls -la /etc/alternatives/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2009-12-17 18:35 /etc/alternatives/python ->
/usr/bin/python2.6
and as you can see it's pointing (indirectly) to the correct python binary. Why
isn't the package
manager understanding this?
Here's the info on my system:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
Thank you,
Gabriel
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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update alternatives & python problem when trying to update packages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/501022
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