Anybody else running getmail on Ubuntu 18.04? and seen python2 link disappear?
Adrian Pepper <[email protected]>
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I have been running Ubuntu 18.04 lxc containers on my Ubuntu 16.04 ("bare metal") workstation for many months now.
Just recently a set of updates caused a scare as /usr/bin/getmail (5.5) was failing with "/usr/bin/python2: bad interpreter: No such file or directory" for a while.
For now I just did (after examining output of "locate python")...
cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s python2.7 python2
And it works again. "It" being (getmail and) my script which calls getmail to download messages and send them through a procmailrc. For some messages that procmailrc forwards them to mail gateways on another 18.04 container on which I run "inn2". This allows me to read some mailing lists as if they are newsgroups. "trn" is much faster (better for skimming junk) than any mailreader.
I suspect an "apt-get autoremove" may have removed the /usr/bin/python2 link, though it's difficult to confirm. (I.e. was not reproduced on another 18.04 container which has /usr/lib/python2 -> ) This isn't really a getmail problem, but it might be something some users might run into occasionally? Indeed, "dpkg-query -S /usr/bin/python2" finds no package providing it. I presume installing a python 2 package such as python2.7 creates it. Perhaps something called by "autoremove" removed it under some assumption it would get replaced appropriately.
Adrian Pepper
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