Inforbiomatica

I couldn’t find a good solution to this on the Web, so I’m providing one in case it helps anyone else.

I recently had a weird problem applying updates to Ubuntu Hardy, due to a failure while dpkg was configuring python2.5, giving me error messages like:

dpkg: error processing python2.5 (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 python2.5-minimal
 python2.5

I fixed this by allowing the pycentral rtinstall command to overwrite “local” files (which weren’t actually local, I think they were left over from previous versions of Ubuntu–I have upgraded the OS several times). In /etc/python/debian_config, I added:

overwrite-local = True

“aptitude safe-upgrade” then ran without a hitch.