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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
