I'm running Debian 7.3 and I built Python 2.7.6 from source and it was installed in /usr/local/lib/python2.7 I used checkinstall to create a .deb package so I can easily uninstall it later, the problem is that I named the package python, but if I try to remove it it'll remove all the other packages that depend on python, so now I removed the installed files manually but the package is still showing in Synaptic package manager and also if I run:
apt-cache show python
I can see the 2 descriptions, the one I installed and the default one, also in Synaptic I can see it under Status > Installed (local or obsolete).
So how can remove this package without removing the original python package ? it's showing 2 versions 2.7.6 (my own version) and 2.7.3 (the system's version), can I remove 1 version and keep the other ?
You should just install the python version from the repositories. Lets assume the following:
apt-cache policy python
python:
Installed: 2.7.6
Candidate: 2.7.6
Version table:
*** 2.7.6 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.7.3 0
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable/main i386 Packages
In this case, the package installed isn't available in any of the repositories. Then what we should do is downgrade the package using apt-get:
sudo apt-get install python/stable
or
sudo apt-get install python=2.7.3
or
sudo apt-get -t stable install python
This will downgrade the package seamlessly. Next time append to the package some version name like this python2.7.6 to prevent this.
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