Comment 39 for bug 457688

Václav, of course, I might have gotten something wrong, but I've just tried it again. I've used the nz.archive.ubuntu.com mirror, and this time I have downloaded the package manually:

gkloss@it041227:~$ wget http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/boost1.38/libboost-python1.38.0_1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
--2010-05-11 10:23:32-- http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/boost1.38/libboost-python1.38.0_1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
Resolving alb-cache.massey.ac.nz... 130.123.225.69
Connecting to alb-cache.massey.ac.nz|130.123.225.69|:8080... connected.
Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 240038 (234K) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `libboost-python1.38.0_1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1_i386.deb'

100%[=================================================>] 240,038 --.-K/s in 0.02s

2010-05-11 10:23:33 (10.1 MB/s) - `libboost-python1.38.0_1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1_i386.deb' saved [240038/240038]

Now install it manually, after before (forcefully) removing it:

$ sudo dpkg -i libboost-python1.38.0_1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package libboost-python1.38.0.
(Reading database ... 337560 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libboost-python1.38.0 (from libboost-python1.38.0_1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up libboost-python1.38.0 (1.38.0-6ubuntu6.1) ...

Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place

And now for the test:

gkloss@it041227:~$ python
Python 2.6.4 (r264:75706, Dec 7 2009, 18:45:15)
[GCC 4.4.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from visual import *
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/visual/__init__.py", line 58, in <module>
    import cvisual
AttributeError: 'Boost.Python.StaticProperty' object attribute '__doc__' is read-only
>>>