pyserial failed to install/upgrade: pycentral pkginstall: Not overwriting local files

[Marc Jarlégand]

Sorry i'm not sure, this bug is not already exist, but i prefer post it again!

marc@marc-laptop:~$ uname -a
Linux marc-laptop 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

marc@marc-laptop:~$ apt-get instal -f
...
Paramétrage de python-serial (2.3-1) ...
pycentral: pycentral pkginstall: Not overwriting local files:
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/__init__.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialjava.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialwin32.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/sermsdos.py not found.
pycentral pkginstall: Not overwriting local files:
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/__init__.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialjava.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialposix.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialutil.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/serialwin32.py not found.
   dpkg: /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/serial/sermsdos.py not found.
dpkg : erreur de traitement de python-serial (--configure) :
 le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
Des erreurs ont été rencontrées pendant l'exécution :
 python-serial
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Best regards
Marc

ProblemType: Package
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 12 11:47:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ErrorMessage: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: python-serial 2.3-1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: pyserial
Title: package python-serial 2.3-1 failed to install/upgrade: le sous-processus script post-installation installé a retourné une erreur de sortie d'état 1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

Thanks for your report.

This is likely a duplicate of bug 291262. Could you please refer to that report and tell if the workaround works for you.

Thanks.