package python2.5 2.5.2-0ubuntu3 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/python2.5/site.py', which is also in package python2.5-minimal

Keep getting
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
when I sudo apt-get upgrade or sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Also getting this. The last python updates completely broke my Python installation:

thp@macbook:~/src/gpodder$ python
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Feb 26 2008, 12:39:36)
[GCC 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu1)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import site
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site.py", line 415, in <module>
    main()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site.py", line 408, in main
    execsitecustomize()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site.py", line 389, in execsitecustomize
    import sitecustomize
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/sitecustomize.py", line 13, in <module>
    if os.path.isdir(local_site_python):
NameError: name 'os' is not defined

Temporary fix is to add "import os" after the line "import sys" in /usr/lib/python2.5/sitecustomize.py, which seems to fix the problem for me.

Oh, yes: It should probably be

import os.path

to make it completely nice :)

fixed in -0ubuntu4

This bug should be resolved in the upload of python2.5 2.5.2-0ubuntu4:

python2.5 (2.5.2-0ubuntu4) hardy; urgency=low

  * Move site.py to python2.4-minimal, remove `addbuilddir' from site.py,
    which is unnecessary for installed builds.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:34:46 +0000

This file was in python2.5-minimal in previous versions of the package and was moved to python2.5 by mistake, so now that it's moved back there should be no further upgrade problems. Please try to update to the latest version to confirm.

Fixed confirmed, everything seems fine now.