[solved] wxpython upgrade and not owned filesystem

Question

Hi,
I had a strange problem today. I did a big update today (1 giga). I had a conflict with wxpython.
I removed wxpython and installed it again. When installing wxpython, I get a lot of
wxpython: /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx.pth exists in filesystem
I checked to see if fiel are own by a package and it is not hte case as you can see:
LANG=en pacman -Qo /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxPython/xrc.py
error: No package owns /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode/wxPython/xrc.py
I tried on few other files. It looks like wxpython did not uninstall well. I've never face such an ugly problem. What could I do?
Last edited by manouchk (2011-08-13 21:35:07)

Answer 1

OK, thank you very much KenJackson. I didn't know shell brace expansion, just remembered I,ve already used it without trying to understand it... I really should learn a bit more of shell! Just living in python is a bit restrictive!!
I did move the file you suggested and a few other files that are not owned by any packages and wxpython seems to be working.
The other files are shown in the full script I used:
cd /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
mv {,PROB}wx.pth
mv {,PROB}wxversion.py
mv {,PROB}wxversion.pyc
mv {,PROB}wx-2.8-gtk2-unicode
cd /usr/bin
mv {,PROB}editra
mv {,PROB}helpviewer
mv {,PROB}img2png
mv {,PROB}img2py
mv {,PROB}img2xpm
mv {,PROB}pyalacarte
mv {,PROB}pyalamode
mv {,PROB}pycrust
mv {,PROB}pyshell
mv {,PROB}pywrap
mv {,PROB}pywxrc
mv {,PROB}xrced
pacman -S wxpython
The problems seems solved but does not explain why this problem occured... I'm closing the topic so far.
Last edited by manouchk (2011-08-13 21:27:29)