@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ function fixup_ubuntu {

     # Enable universe

     sudo add-apt-repository -y universe

+

+    # Since pip10, pip will refuse to uninstall files from packages

+    # that were created with distutils (rather than more modern

+    # setuptools).  This is because it technically doesn't have a

+    # manifest of what to remove.  However, in most cases, simply

+    # overwriting works.  So this hacks around those packages that

+    # have been dragged in by some other system dependency

+    sudo rm -f /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PyYAML-*.egg-info

 }

 # Python Packages