Firefox update issue

[MR ZenWiz]

On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Jim <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 02/07/2017 03:08 PM, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>>
>> Looks right - see below:
>>
>> admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ locate lsb_release
>> /usr/bin/lsb_release
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.py
>> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.pyc
>> /usr/share/man/man1/lsb_release.1.gz
>> /usr/share/pyshared/lsb_release.py
>
> FWIW on Mint18.1 I have it.
>
> jfb at jims-mint18 ~ $ locate lsb_release.py
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.py
> /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.pyc
> /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py
> /usr/share/pyshared/lsb_release.py
> jfb at jims-mint18 ~ $
>
> Looking at the timestamps etc, they seem to be identical and it should be
> comparable with Python3 as it has this line:
>
> # Python3-compatible print() function
> from __future__ import print_function
>
> so maybe you could just copy the one from 2.7 to python 3.
>

Doesn't seem to work:

admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ sudo ln
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.py
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/
admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ lsb_release
No LSB modules are available.

admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ sudo ln
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.pyc
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages
admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ lsb_release
No LSB modules are available.

admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ ll /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py*
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root    38 Dec  8 16:42
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.py ->
../../../share/pyshared/lsb_release.py
-rw-rw-r-- 2 root root 11010 Dec  8 16:43
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/lsb_release.pyc
admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ ll /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.py*
lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root    38 Dec  8 16:42
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.py ->
../../../share/pyshared/lsb_release.py
-rw-rw-r-- 2 root root 11010 Dec  8 16:43
/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lsb_release.pyc

I also tried making a backup of the lsb_release script and modifying
it to use python, instead of python3 and it gets the same error as the
original, plus another quirk:

admar at marbase:~/Downloads $ lsb_release
  File "/usr/bin/lsb_release", line 64
    print("No LSB modules are available.", file=sys.stderr)
                                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax