On 5/21/22 06:19, o1bigtenor wrote:
> more useful - - - - well - - - - I don't have to wonder why 'linux' is
> used as much
> by the general populace as it is. The community likes to destroy
> itself - - - it
> is a pity - - - - the community has so much to offer.
As far as community goes, the Lin
On Tue, May 17, 2022 at 6:20 AM 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.
>
Found the responses to my request quite interesting - - -
Chris Angelico writes:
> On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 04:05, Loris Bennett
> wrote:
>>
>> [snip (26 lines)]
>>
>> > I think you had a problem before that. Debian testing is not an
>> > operating system you should be using if you have a fairly good
>> > understanding of how Debian (or Linux in genera
On 5/17/22 05:20, o1bigtenor wrote:
> What can I do to correct this self-inflicted problem?
Those are always the fun ones. Reminds me of when I was first learning
Linux using Red Hat Linux 5.0 or 5.1. This was long before nice
dependency-solving tools like apt. I wanted to install and run
StarO
On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 04:05, Loris Bennett wrote:
>
> [snip (26 lines)]
>
> > I think you had a problem before that. Debian testing is not an
> > operating system you should be using if you have a fairly good
> > understanding of how Debian (or Linux in general) works.
>
> Should be
>
> I thin
On Wed, 18 May 2022 at 04:05, Loris Bennett wrote:
> > So now I have problems.
>
> I think you had a problem before that. Debian testing is not an
> operating system you should be using if you have a fairly good
> understanding of how Debian (or Linux in general) works.
I take issue with that! D
On 2022-05-17, Loris Bennett wrote:
> It might be possible to fix the system. If will probably be fairly
> difficult, but you would probably learn a lot doing it. However, if I
> were you, I would just install Debian stable over your borked system and
> then learn a bit more about package manag
o1bigtenor writes:
> 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.
Deleting anything from /us
[snip (26 lines)]
> I think you had a problem before that. Debian testing is not an
> operating system you should be using if you have a fairly good
> understanding of how Debian (or Linux in general) works.
Should be
I think you had a problem before that. Debian testing is not an
operatin
On Tue, 17 May 2022 at 21:22, 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.
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
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!!!) t
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