Virtualbox 6.1.14 on Ubuntu 20.10

[Faidros]

The release of Ubuntu 20.10 is less than two weeks out, so I'd like to draw attention to a problem I've run into. It seems that 20.10 defaults to python3 and wants to install python-is-python3, which pulls in the latest version of dh-python, which in turn can't co-exist with Oracle's Virtualbox-6.1 and wants to uninstall it.

I don't mind having _both_ python2 and python3 installed. But as of right now I can have either python-is-python3, and not be able to do a complete upgrade since virtualbox-6.1 will be uninstalled, or python-is-python2, in which case I cripple 20.10's python3 install, since I won't get dh-python and python-six.

Is there a way around this? Can the devs do something about it?

Faidros

[fth0]

I'd suggest that you add your information to the following Bugracker ticket: 19897.

[trekfan1]

Code: Select all

sudo apt purge dh-python

i'm remove only this package without problems

[Faidros]

I tried this on a fresh install now, not an upgrade, and I'm happy to report that everything works as it should in this case.