Thread: [Announce] "Alarmed" scheduling App (supports automatic GPRS data counter resetting)
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magick777 is offline magick777
2010-07-16 , 11:48
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Originally Posted by mdengler View Post
On my PR1.2, both /usr/bin/python and /usr/bin/python2.5 are owned (dpkg -S /usr/bin/python{,2.5}) by package python-minimal, so not sure how you got one file and not the other.
This starts to look like a dependency issue in Alarmed. I installed on a virgin N900 so it would have installed (in theory) whatever python components it depends upon. On checking with dpkg, /usr/bin/python2.5 was owned by package python2.5-minimal (which was installed with alarmed), but python-minimal was not installed. I have installed it myself and Alarmed continues to work fine.

So, I'm guessing that the recent version of Alarmed moved to a dependency on package python2.5-minimal, but that that package does not provide /usr/bin/python, it provides (only) /usr/bin/python2.5. This would only show up on a virgin install to a system that didn't already have python-minimal, which would also explain why it's not a more widely reported issue.