Black Chase

Asked: 2021-11-09 00:23:56 +0800 CST2021-11-09 00:23:56 +0800 CST 2021-11-09 00:23:56 +0800 CST

Errors were encountered while processing: mercurial-common

I accidentally removed python from /usr/bin as it was conflicting with /usr/local/bin. (rm -rf /usr/bin/python*)

After realising my mistake i reinstall python3.8 and python2.7 from source. Python is now working.

I took some of the help from here.

OS: Ubuntu 20.04, with KDE, ZSH

But whenever i try to install any other package via apt this happens:

Setting up mercurial-common (5.3.1-1ubuntu1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-common.postinst: 8: pycompile: not found
dpkg: error processing package mercurial-common (--configure):
 installed mercurial-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mercurial-common
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried sudo dpkg --configure -a which resulted in:

Setting up mercurial-common (5.3.1-1ubuntu1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-common.postinst: 8: pycompile: not found
dpkg: error processing package mercurial-common (--configure):
 installed mercurial-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mercurial-common

I tried sudo apt-get install mercurial-common mercurial which resulted in:


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
mercurial-common is already the newest version (5.3.1-1ubuntu1).
Suggested packages:
  kdiff3 | kdiff3-qt | kompare | meld | tkcvs | mgdiff qct
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mercurial
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/323 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,092 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 564968 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mercurial_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mercurial (5.3.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up mercurial-common (5.3.1-1ubuntu1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-common.postinst: 8: pycompile: not found
dpkg: error processing package mercurial-common (--configure):
 installed mercurial-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of mercurial:
 mercurial depends on mercurial-common (= 5.3.1-1ubuntu1); however:
  Package mercurial-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package mercurial (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 mercurial-common
 mercurial
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried sudo apt-get install --fix-broken:

Package mercurial-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package mercurial (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
                                                                                                          Errors were encountered while processing:
 mercurial-common
 mercurial
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

I tried to install mercurial from source by sudo make install (as on the page) the end was:

running install_scripts
copying build/scripts-3.8/hg -> /usr/local/bin
changing mode of /usr/local/bin/hg to 775
running install_egg_info
Removing /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mercurial-5.9.3-py3.8.egg-info
Writing /usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/mercurial-5.9.3-py3.8.egg-info
make -C doc
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/black/Downloads/mercurial-debian-master/doc'
python3 runrst hgmanpage  --halt warning \
  --strip-elements-with-class htmlonly hgrc.5.txt hgrc.5
abort: couldn't generate documentation: docutils module is missing
please install python-docutils or see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/
make[1]: *** [Makefile:33: hgrc.5] Error 255
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/black/Downloads/mercurial-debian-master/doc'
make: *** [Makefile:81: doc] Error 2
╭─   ~/Downloads/mercurial-debian-mast

I am not able to install any package from apt because of this and i am not able to configure mercurial.

I tried downloading mercurial-common's .deb and installing it as it was on ubuntu:

$ apt-get download mercurial-common
$ sudo dpkg -i mercurial-common_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb
(Reading database ... 564985 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack mercurial-common_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-common.prerm: 12: pyclean: not found
dpkg: warning: old mercurial-common package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 127
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: 12: pyclean: not found
dpkg: error processing archive mercurial-common_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb (--install):
 new mercurial-common package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 127
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-common.postinst: 8: pycompile: not found
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 installed mercurial-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mercurial-common_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb

As asked i tried:

cd /var/cache/apt/archives/ && sudo rm -rf *.deb
sudo apt --purge autoremove mercurial\*

(I am using zsh, so mercurial* wont work), resulted in:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'mercurial-keyring' for glob 'mercurial*'
Note, selecting 'mercurial-git' for glob 'mercurial*'
Note, selecting 'mercurial-buildpackage' for glob 'mercurial*'
Note, selecting 'mercurial-common' for glob 'mercurial*'
Note, selecting 'mercurial' for glob 'mercurial*'
Note, selecting 'mercurial-crecord' for glob 'mercurial*'
Note, selecting 'mercurial-extension-utils' for glob 'mercurial*'
Package 'mercurial-git' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'mercurial-buildpackage' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'mercurial-crecord' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'mercurial-extension-utils' is not installed, so not removed
Package 'mercurial-keyring' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  mercurial* mercurial-common*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 15.1 MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 564985 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing mercurial (5.3.1-1ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing package mercurial-common (--remove):
 package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should
 reinstall it before attempting a removal
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
Errors were encountered while processing:
 mercurial-common
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Also tried reinstalling:

$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall mercurial mercurial-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  kdiff3 | kdiff3-qt | kompare | meld | tkcvs | mgdiff qct
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mercurial
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 32 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 2,973 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,092 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 mercurial-common all 5.3.1-1ubuntu1 [2,650 kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 mercurial amd64 5.3.1-1ubuntu1 [323 kB]
Fetched 2,973 kB in 5s (635 kB/s)   
(Reading database ... 564968 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../mercurial-common_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-common.prerm: 12: pyclean: not found
dpkg: warning: old mercurial-common package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 127
dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
/var/lib/dpkg/tmp.ci/prerm: 12: pyclean: not found
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/mercurial-common_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 new mercurial-common package pre-removal script subprocess returned error exit status 127
/var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial-common.postinst: 8: pycompile: not found
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 installed mercurial-common package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
Preparing to unpack .../mercurial_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mercurial (5.3.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/mercurial-common_5.3.1-1ubuntu1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Also for references: (Mercurial is depends on python2 and i have it installed.

$ which pycompile
/usr/bin/pycompile
$ which pyclean
/usr/bin/pyclean
$ which python2.7
/usr/local/bin/python2.7
$ ls -la /usr/local/bin/python*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  5490488 Nov  8 00:17 /usr/local/bin/python
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        9 Nov  8 03:21 /usr/local/bin/python2 -> python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  9795824 Nov  8 03:19 /usr/local/bin/python2.7
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     1687 Nov  8 03:19 /usr/local/bin/python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 Nov  8 03:21 /usr/local/bin/python2-config -> python2.7-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root        9 Nov  8 15:36 /usr/local/bin/python3 -> python3.7
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17917584 Nov  8 15:35 /usr/local/bin/python3.7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       17 Nov  8 15:36 /usr/local/bin/python3.7-config -> python3.7m-config
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 17917584 Nov  8 15:35 /usr/local/bin/python3.7m
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     2902 Nov  8 15:36 /usr/local/bin/python3.7m-config
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 20551712 Nov  8 02:33 /usr/local/bin/python3.8
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root     3087 Nov  8 02:33 /usr/local/bin/python3.8-config
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root       16 Nov  8 15:36 /usr/local/bin/python3-config -> python3.7-config

1 Answers

Voted

Best Answer

Black Chase

2021-11-09T02:53:33+08:002021-11-09T02:53:33+08:00

After installing python2.7 , python3.7 from scratch. I installed pyclean with pip2. I had to install pip2 aswell so i did this:

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python2 get-pip.py

Then removed mercurial dpkg's by:

sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/info/mercurial*

Then i tried reinstalling mercurial:

sudo apt install --reinstall  mercurial mercurial-common

But that did not work until i did this:

sudo apt-get -m --reinstall install python2.7 python2.7-minimal dh-python python3 python3-minimal 
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/local/bin/python python /usr/local/bin/python3 12
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/local/bin/python python /usr/local/bin/python2 11
sudo dpkg --configure -a

And now apt update/install/upgrade is working fine. Thanks to all the comments.

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