On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 6:37 AM Antony Stone
<Antony.Stone@???> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 20 April 2022 at 13:17:48, o1bigtenor via Dng wrote:
>
> > Greetings
> >
> > In the process of upgrading my system I now am stuck at a point where
> > I don't know how to resolve the conundrum.
> >
> > /bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/apt-listchanges: not found
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10
> > returned an error code (1)
> > E: Failure running script /usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -lt 10
> >
> > when I go to look at the files and folders in /usr/bin/ I can find
> > this apt-listchanges but somehow the apt 'system' isn't seeing it or
> > is seeing it poorly.
> >
> > When I try apt --fix-broken install I the same message.
> >
> > How do I resolve this - - - - -please?
>
> I found myself in exactly this situation recently.
>
> I had a machine running Beowulf with all mounted file systems as LVM logical
> volumes. I created a duplicate LV of the root file system and rebooted from
> it, then performed an upgrade to Chimaera.
>
> I wasn't happy (for reasons that don't matter here) with the result, so I
> simply re-booted back into the untouched Beowulf root FS.
>
> Unfortunately I had neglected to consider the consequences of my having
> created a separate /var partition in the first place, which got used by the
> Chimaera upgrade, and was then thoroughly corrupted as far as Beowulf was
> concered (mainly due to /var/dpkg, I'm sure).
>
> It turned out that the "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges: not found" message is highly
> misleading, and means that the script could not find the Python interpreter it
> expected to, not that the script itself could not be found.
>
> So, I think if you look at the first line of that script on your system, it
> will point to something like /usr/bin/python3, which is probably a symlink to
> something else in /usr/bin, which does not exist.
>
> I hope this should at least give you some pointers as to what it is you need
> to fix - get the correct version of Python3 installed.
>

I had just previously deleted the folder python3.9 but python3.10 was
right beside so thought deleting the previous would make more room (which I
desperately need!!).

When looking at the first lines in apt-listchanges - - - well I'm no programmer
but the code looks more like Perl to me with the use of the :: directives but
I dunno much about programming so that could be right out to lunch!!!

Not seeing anything like what you're describing - - - sorry.

When the tools to fix the broken tools don't work - - - - what are the options?
Is there only a re-install?
(That would be scary - - - - this is a complicated system and I've got piles
of software installed!! - - - last time I did this things were quite hairy for
quite a while!!!! Not fun at all!)

Thank you for the information - - - good to know that the error message
really doesn't connect with the real world - - - - I wasn't even able
to find any
references on the web - - - - ZERO - - - which - - I thought was sorta unusual!

Regards