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I am trying to update from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04, but when I run do-release-update, I get error:

su@sudo:~$ do-release-upgrade -d 
Checking for a new Ubuntu release
Get:1 Upgrade tool signature [1,554 B]                                         
Get:2 Upgrade tool [1,342 kB]                                                  
Fetched 1,343 kB in 0s (0 B/s)                                                 
authenticate 'focal.tar.gz' against 'focal.tar.gz.gpg' 
extracting 'focal.tar.gz'
Reading cache

Checking package manager

Can not upgrade 

Your python3 install is corrupted. Please fix the '/usr/bin/python3' 
symlink. 

ls -al /usr/bin | grep python3

lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          29 Mar 27  2018 dh_python3 -> ../share/dh-python/dh_python3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          23 Apr 18 07:26 pdb3.6 -> ../lib/python3.6/pdb.py
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          23 Nov  7  2019 pdb3.7 -> ../lib/python3.7/pdb.py
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          31 Oct 25  2018 py3versions -> ../share/python3/py3versions.py
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          19 Jun 10 15:12 python3 -> /usr/bin/python3.6m
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          16 Jun 10 14:36 python3.6 -> /usr/bin/python3
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          33 Apr 18 07:26 python3.6-config -> x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.6-config
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root     4526456 Apr 18 07:26 python3.6m
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          34 Apr 18 07:26 python3.6m-config -> x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.6m-config
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4873376 Nov  7  2019 python3.7
-rwxr-xr-x  2 root root     4873376 Nov  7  2019 python3.7m
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          16 Oct 25  2018 python3-config -> python3.6-config
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          10 Oct 25  2018 python3m -> python3.6m
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          17 Oct 25  2018 python3m-config -> python3.6m-config
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          34 Apr 18 07:26 x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.6-config -> x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.6m-config
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root        3283 Apr 18 07:26 x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.6m-config
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          33 Oct 25  2018 x86_64-linux-gnu-python3-config -> x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.6-config
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root          34 Oct 25  2018 x86_64-linux-gnu-python3m-config -> x86_64-linux-gnu-python3.6m-config

$ dpkg -l | egrep -v '^ii|rc'

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
+++-=============================================-===================================================-============-=================================================================================
rFR python3                                       3.6.7-1~18.04                                       amd64        interactive high-level object-oriented language (default python3 version)
Kushal
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1 Answers1

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sudo apt install --reinstall python3

package was in unclean state

rFR python3 

what it means

The next would be to upgrade to ubuntu 20.04. Make sure that in file

/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades

Prompt=lts

is set. Make backup from your data and try again.

nobody
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