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Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working

Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working

Posted Mar 28, 2009 14:43 UTC (Sat) by james_w (subscriber, #51167)
In reply to: Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working by khc
Parent article: Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working

As sbdep pointed out dpkg trims its output by default. mdz spotted that the way dpkg does that makes the two version numbers indistinguishable on an 80 column terminal, so I added the "| cat" to make sure that everybody saw the full version number.


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Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working

Posted Mar 29, 2009 0:48 UTC (Sun) by khc (subscriber, #45209) [Link]

ah, thanks!

Jaunty python upgrade prevents pygtk apps from working

Posted Apr 8, 2009 11:25 UTC (Wed) by fjorba (subscriber, #6175) [Link]

Neat. The trick I knew so far was:

$ COLUMNS=132 dpkg -l python2.6

132 columns being a magic number that we, the elder, know as the width of a wide, continuous paper dot-matrix printer.

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