[arch-general] Python nightmare

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El 2022-08-19 06:16, Guus Snijders via arch-general escribió:

> Op vr 19 aug. 2022 04:00 schreef admin--- via arch-general <
> arch-general at lists.archlinux.org>:
> 
>> Hi guys,
>> 
>> Recently tried to install Spyder IDE but i got a ton of errors, so 
>> after
>> trying different approaches I found that probably doing it through
>> Anaconda would be better.
> 
> Ok, first question: how did you install these applications? Was it an 
> Arch
> package or from source? Or even another packager like PIP?
> 
> I tried to install it from Arch pkg first, and then from AUR, finally I 
> use the
> Anaconda installer
> 
> And try first with AUR, but never could, so I
> 
>> download Anacondas installer and after a huge amount of time it got
>> installed. So there it was Anaconda + Spyder  etc.... however I 
>> started
>> to get a ton of Python related warnings and error every time I updated
>> (pacman -Syu), so i ended up removing Anconda and everything else. But
>> now i still getting errors like...
>> 
>> advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo
>> usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/btrfsutil.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
>> advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo
>> 
>> usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/_distutils_hack/__pycache__/override.cpython-310.pyc
>> advertencia: no se pudo obtener información del archivo
>> usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/jaraco.text-3.8.1.dist-info/
> 
> Hint: use
> LANG=C pacman -Syu
> If you seek help on an international mailing list. Messages in English 
> are
> a lot easier to work with. :)
> 
> :D good point, thanks.
> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> So, does anybody has seen or been in something like this? any hints 
>> how
>> can I "purge" "remove" or deinstall properly the buggy libraries and
>> reinstall everything properly?
>> 
>> Hope someone have a good pointer. Thanks in advance.
> 
> Well, it looks like your python installation is messed up. Hence my
> question about installing from source.
> 
> Could you try to use these (broken) applications as another user? With 
> a
> bit of luck, it's only the personal environment that got broken.
> 
> Yep, I tried it wiht a brand new user with the same result :(
> 
> If it doesn't work with another user, then you might have corrupted the
> files. Perhaps that can be fixed by reinstalling the packages (from a 
> known
> good source), otherwise it's probably time to reinstall Arch completely 
> and
> restore the user data from backup.
> 
> This is what i was trying to avoid, but every day i see it more near as 
> a solution.
> 
> Of course, this being Linux, you could also opt to check each file 
> under
> /usr with pacman. (Can this be done the other way around? By letting 
> pacman
> test the integrity of each installed pkg?).
> 
> There's nothing wrong with a little manual work, I'm just guessing that
> starting from scratch might be faster, depending on the damage.
> 
> yes, I agree. Thanks Guus for your comments.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Mvg, Guus Snijders