No program named Python

[Joel Sherrill]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 11:52 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:

> On 02/10/2018 09:08, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> >
> > It could be a system administration issue I don't know how to resolve
> yet but
> > during recent Kick Starts, both Ubuntu abd msys2 have ended up with no
> program
> > named python. There can be a python2.x or python3.x. On Ubuntu, I hacked
> and
> > symlinked python2.x to python. This didn't work on msys2.
> >
> > Given I have seen this issue on two different platforms, I wanted to
> report this
> > and see if anyone had any insight.
> >
>
> On Ubuntu I have:
>
>  $ file /usr/bin/python
>  /usr/bin/python: symbolic link to python2.7
>  $ apt-file search /usr/bin/python | grep "/usr/bin/python$"
>  python-minimal: /usr/bin/python
>
> This looks like a packaging issue on Ubuntu.
>

Grr..I added a second link by hand.

>
> On MSYS2 I do not know.
>

I tried a fresh MSYS2 yesterday.

We need to watch out for this and see if there is a trend.



> Chris
>
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