package python-requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.3 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration

[natraj]

Somethign is messed up after linking python to python 3 and after this all these issues started cropping up.

ProblemType: Package
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: python-requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-101.124~14.04.1-generic 4.4.95
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-101-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.27
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Nov 27 16:18:42 2017
DuplicateSignature: package:python-requests:2.2.1-1ubuntu0.3:package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
ErrorMessage: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-11-16 (10 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20160803)
PackageArchitecture: all
RelatedPackageVersions:
 dpkg 1.17.5ubuntu5.7
 apt 1.0.1ubuntu2.17
SourcePackage: requests
Title: package python-requests 2.2.1-1ubuntu0.3 failed to install/upgrade: package is in a very bad inconsistent state; you should reinstall it before attempting configuration
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2017-11-27 (0 days ago)

[Andreas Hasenack (ahasenack)]

Did you really link python to python3? Can you elaborate on what you did?

[natraj (pnatraj)]

I was installing coursera-dl (https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl) and this had a specific crypto dependency and i starting installing the same with pip. But the crypto dependency had python3 as a requirement

Then i did the below
1) Moved /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python2
2) Linked /usr/bin/python to /usr/bin/python3.7
3) Executed the below commands

       coursera-dl virtualenv my-coursera
  180 virtualenv my-coursera
  181 sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
  182 sudo apt-get install python3-virtualenv
  183 sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv
  184 coursera-dl
  185 pip3 install cffi
  186 sudo pip3 install cffi
......

   Was able to use coursera-dl

Then on the apt-get update started failing please i have attached the complete command line history in the attachment "aptcommandhistory.txt"

[Joshua Powers (powersj)]

Thanks for taking the time to file the bug and explain what you did. However, we do not support running with /usr/bin/python pointing to Python 3. For Python 3 you should use /usr/bin/python3.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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