[SR-11566] can't install python in the swift docker image

[kevints]

Previous ID	SR-11566
Radar	None
Original Reporter	@kevints
Type	Bug

Additional Detail from JIRA

Votes	0
Component/s	Docker
Labels	Bug
Assignee	None
Priority	Medium

md5: f0bd5ba8d7b9a3b6aad25bfd68c4d670

Issue Description:

The swift toolchain comes with some Python bindings for LLDB, but the docker image is laid out in a way that makes using them impossible. If you run apt update && apt install python in the docker image you get the following error:

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Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 python2.7-minimal amd64 2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04.1 [1293 kB]
Fetched 1293 kB in 0s (9272 kB/s)         
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 20262 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../python2.7-minimal_2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
new installation of python2.7-minimal; /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages is a directory
which is expected a symlink to /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages.
please find the package shipping files in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages and
file a bug report to ship these in /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages instead
aborting installation of python2.7-minimal
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7-minimal_2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 new python2.7-minimal package pre-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/python2.7-minimal_2.7.15-4ubuntu4~18.04.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

It seems like we need to install the lldb bindings elsewhere

[belkadan]

@shahmishal, is this for you?

[swift-ci]

Comment by David Jones (JIRA)

I think this is a duplicate of https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-10344

[MaxDesiatov]

@shahmishal I think this can be closed.

This is not reproducible with either swift:5.7-bionic or swift:5.7-jammy. Both apt update && apt install -y python3 and apt update && apt install -y python2 run successfully for me with these images.