I was struggling so much to install an application. And somewhere in comments someone had said I went brutal and did rm -rf /usr/lib/python2.7
and then I did the same. And after that I did sudo apt purge python2.7-minimal
now my system is completely broken for example when I do sudo apt upgrade
I get:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp : Depends: python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~)
libboost-mpi-python1.58.0 : Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
Depends: python (>= 2.7~) but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
libboost-python1.58-dev : Depends: python-dev but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
Depends: python (>= 2.5) but it is not installed or
python-celementtree but it is not installable or
python-elementtree but it is not installable
ndiff : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-bs4 : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-cairo : Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
Depends: python (>= 2.7~) but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-chardet : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
Depends: python-pkg-resources but it is not installed
python-dbus : Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
Depends: python (>= 2.7~) but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-gi : Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
Depends: python (>= 2.7~) but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-gobject-2 : Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
Depends: python (>= 2.7~) but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-gtk2 : Depends: python (>= 2.7) but it is not installed
Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
python-html5lib : Depends: python-six but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-lxml : Depends: python (>= 2.7) but it is not installed
Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
python-pip : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
Recommends: python-all-dev (>= 2.6) but it is not installed
python-setuptools : Depends: python-pkg-resources (= 20.7.0-1) but it is not installed
Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-wheel : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
python-xlib : Depends: python:any (< 2.8)
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
speedtest-cli : Depends: python (>= 2.7) but it is not installed
Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installed
Depends: python-pkg-resources but it is not installed
And when I issue sudo apt-get -f install
I get:
The following additional packages will be installed:
python python-dev python-pkg-resources python-six python2.7-dev
Suggested packages:
python-doc python-tk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
python python-dev python-pkg-resources python-six python2.7-dev
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
21 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/533 kB of archives.
After this operation, 1,465 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Setting up python2.7-minimal (2.7.12-1ubuntu0~16.04.2) ...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
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):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python-minimal:
python-minimal depends on python2.7-minimal (>= 2.7.11-1~); however:
Package python2.7-minimal is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing package python-minimal (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Errors were encountered while processing:
python2.7-minimal
python-minimal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
What should I do now!? How can I fix what I've ruined!?