Request for assistance (hopefully not OT)

[Martin Di Paola]

Try to reinstall python and only python and if you succeeds, then try to
reinstall the other tools.

For this, use "apt-get" instead of "apt"

$ sudo apt-get reinstall python3

When a system is heavily broken, be extra careful and read the output of
the programs. If "apt-get" says than in order to reinstall python it will have
to remove half of your computer, abort. Better ask than sorry.

Best of the lucks.

Martin.

On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 06:20:39AM -0500, o1bigtenor wrote:
>Greetings
>
>I was having space issues in my /usr directory so I deleted some
>programs thinking that the space taken was more an issue than having
>older versions of the program.
>
>So one of the programs I deleted (using rm -r) was python3.9.
>Python3.10 was already installed so I thought (naively!!!) that things
>should continue working.
>(Python 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 were also part of this cleanup.)
>
>So now I have problems.
>
>Following is the system barf that I get when I run '# apt upgrade'.
>
>What can I do to correct this self-inflicted problem?
>
>(running on debian testing 5.17
>
>Setting up python2.7-minimal (2.7.18-13.1) ...
>Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
>Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
>Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
>/usr/bin/python2.7: can't open file
>'/usr/lib/python2.7/py_compile.py': [Errno 2] No such file or
>directory
>dpkg: error processing package python2.7-minimal (--configure):
> installed python2.7-minimal package post-installation script
>subprocess returned error exit status 2
>Setting up python3.9-minimal (3.9.12-1) ...
>update-binfmts: warning: /usr/share/binfmts/python3.9: no executable
>/usr/bin/python3.9 found, but continuing anyway as you request
>/var/lib/dpkg/info/python3.9-minimal.postinst: 51: /usr/bin/python3.9: not found
>dpkg: error processing package python3.9-minimal (--configure):
> installed python3.9-minimal package post-installation script
>subprocess returned error exit status 127
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3.9:
> python3.9 depends on python3.9-minimal (= 3.9.12-1); however:
>  Package python3.9-minimal is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package python3.9 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python2.7:
> python2.7 depends on python2.7-minimal (= 2.7.18-13.1); however:
>  Package python2.7-minimal is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package python2.7 (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3.9-dev:
> python3.9-dev depends on python3.9 (= 3.9.12-1); however:
>  Package python3.9 is not configured yet.
>
>dpkg: error processing package python3.9-dev (--configure):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>. . .
>Errors were encountered while processing:
> python2.7-minimal
> python3.9-minimal
> python3.9
> python2.7
> python3.9-dev
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