Basically the title. My Python installations were all mixed up, so I ran
sudo apt purge --autoremove python3 python3-venv python3-pip
sudo rm -rf /usr/lib/python3* /usr/bin/python3*
Now dpkg is broken, so I can't install anything:
$ sudo apt install python3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
YThe following additional packages will be installed:
libpython3-stdlib python3-minimal python3.10
Suggested packages:
python3-doc python3-tk python3-venv python3.10-venv python3.10-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpython3-stdlib python3 python3-minimal python3.10
0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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After this operation, 906 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
debconf: (Dialog frontend requires a screen at least 13 lines tall and 31 columns wide.)
debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
Setting up python3.10-minimal (3.10.12-1~22.04.9) ...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Python path configuration:
PYTHONHOME = (not set)
PYTHONPATH = (not set)
program name = '/usr/bin/python3.10'
isolated = 0
environment = 0
user site = 1
import site = 0
sys._base_executable = '/usr/bin/python3.10'
sys.base_prefix = '/usr'
sys.base_exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.platlibdir = 'lib'
sys.executable = '/usr/bin/python3.10'
sys.prefix = '/usr'
sys.exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.path = [
'/usr/lib/python310.zip',
'/usr/lib/python3.10',
'/usr/lib/lib-dynload',
]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x00007fb149ed5000 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>
dpkg: error processing package python3.10-minimal (--configure):
installed python3.10-minimal package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
python3.10-minimal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
So I removed python3-minimal, which, I gather, is very, very bad. How do I repair this situation?
