Troubleshooting • trying to update buster to bookworm

Setting up python3-ipython (8.5.0-4) ...
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/IPython/core/interactiveshell.py", line 2238
def _find_with_lazy_load(self, /, type_, magic_name: str):
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

dpkg: error processing package python3-ipython (--configure):
installed python3-ipython package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10+rpi1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for sgml-base (1.31) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
python3-ipython
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
pi@raspberrypi:~ $ cat /etc/os-release

each time i try upgrading buster to bookworm, i get this code and it doesn't allow me to boot up the next time i turn it on. any fixes?

Statistics: Posted by blood knight — Sun Dec 07, 2025 1:01 pm

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