I accidentally deleted python3 on Ubuntu from /usr/bin. Now every time i install python it gets installed in /usr/local/bin instead so i took python3.5 and placed it in /usr/bin and created a symlink for it from python3 as it was in the original. Somehow this doesn't work and I do not know what to do anymore.
sudo apt-get install *anything* returns
dpkg : error processing package python3 (--configure)
Errors encountered while processing
python3
python3-distupgrade
ubuntu-release-upgrade-core
ubuntu-release-upgrade-gtk
As a result even terminal doesn't work so have to use xterm.
My /usr/bin looks as below - it looks good so I don't know what is wrong
ls -l *python
in /usr/bin returns
python -> python2.7
python2 -> python2.7
python2.7
python3
python3 -> python3.5
python3.5
and some symlinks to config files.
dpkg -l
reveals Python in pFR state. Which I read as purge, failed, reinstall. Just not sure how to do this?
