maemo.org - Talk - broken python?

Hi All,

Firstly I am new to this board - so hi!

Something seems to be seriously up with the python packages on the fremantle1.2 extras repository!

Yesterday I reflashed my device with the latest RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1.203.1_PR_COMBINED_203_ARM image and the latest RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.13-2.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin eMMC as it has become less stable since doing the latest OTA update. All seemed to go well until I tried to install anything from extra that requires python.

If I use AccDisplay as an example I get the message
'Unable to install AccDisplay
Some application packages required for the installation are missing.'

Clicking details shows it is complaining about 'python2.5-minimal'

First I SSH'ed on to the phone as root and did a 'dpkg --get-selections | grep python' and apt-get purged the python packages to ensure I have a clean slate.

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install python
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python: Depends: python2.5 (>= 2.5.2-15) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install python2.5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

python2.5: Depends: python2.5-minimal (= 2.5.4-1maemo6) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install python2.5-minimal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
binfmt-support
Recommended packages:
python2.5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python2.5-minimal
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/1119kB of archives.
After this operation, 4289kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package python2.5-minimal.
(Reading database ... 22098 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking python2.5-minimal (from .../python2.5-minimal_2.5.4-1maemo5_armel.deb) ...
Setting up python2.5-minimal (2.5.4-1maemo5) ...

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install accdisplay
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
accdisplay: Depends: python2.5-hildon
Depends: python2.5-gtk2
Depends: python-osso but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python2.5-xml
Depends: python-dbus but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-gobject but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Nokia-N900:~# apt-get install python-osso python-dbus python-gobject
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-dbus: Depends: python (>= 2.5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-support (>= 0.3.4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python (< 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
python-gobject: Depends: python (>= 2.5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python (< 2.6) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python-support (>= 0.90.0) but it is not going to be installed
python-osso: Depends: python-central (>= 0.6.11) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

wtf??

Any help would be much appreciated!

DeVNuLL