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Posted: **Sat Mar 02, 2019 2:42 pm**

Hi everyone,

I have this weird problem when upgrading/installing any packages on one of my Pis:

dpkg: trying script from the new package instead ...
  File "/usr/bin/pyclean", line 82
    if options.verbose or environ.get('PYCLEAN_DEBUG') == '1':
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-ldb_2%3a1.1.27-1+deb9u1_armhf.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
  File "/usr/bin/pycompile", line 212
    if options.verbose or environ.get('PYCOMPILE_DEBUG') == '1':
                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

It seems that this is not a dpkg problem, but that for some reason the Python 2.7 installation is shot, as even the interactive interpreter complains about invalid syntax after entering only this line (which works on the same machine in Python 3):

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 if a or b:

Any ideas how to fix this without reinstalling the whole thing?

Thanks!

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2019 5:39 pm**

You could try running

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dpkg --audit python

and

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dpkg --verify python

for suggestions, before doing --remove or --purge and reinstalling

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2019 6:49 pm**

Thanks for the response,
unfortunately neither of those commands produce any output at all.

I'm afraid that uninstalling and reinstalling just python will run into the same problem as upgrading, since dpkg itself is running some python scripts in the process (?).

Posted: **Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:51 pm**

The simplest resolution needs a new SDCard, a new copy of Raspbian Stretch and a USB SDCard reader (so you can copy important things from your broken system).

Start afresh you are wasting your time trying to fix this disaster area.

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