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root@odroid:/var/cache/apt/archives# sudo apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
root@odroid:/var/cache/apt/archives# sudo apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
64 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up python3 (3.5.1-3) ...
running python rtupdate hooks for python3.5...
  File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 4
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file /usr/bin/py3clean on line 4, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
error running python rtupdate hook dh-python
  File "/usr/bin/py3clean", line 4
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xc2' in file /usr/bin/py3clean on line 4, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details
error running python rtupdate hook gdebi-core


dpkg: error processing package python3-html5lib (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-lxml:
 python3-lxml depends on python3 (<< 3.6); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.
 python3-lxml depends on python3 (>= 3.5~); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3-lxml (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-numpy:
 python3-numpy depends on python3 (<< 3.6); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.
 python3-numpy depends on python3 (>= 3.5~); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3-numpy (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-pil:armhf:
 python3-pil:armhf depends on python3 (<< 3.6); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.
 python3-pil:armhf depends on python3 (>= 3.5~); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3-pil:armhf (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-pip:
 python3-pip depends on python3:any (>= 3.4~); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3-pip (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of python3-polib:
 python3-polib depends on python3:any (>= 3.3.2-2~); however:
  Package python3 is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package python3-polib (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: too many errors, stopping
No apport report written because MaxReports is reached already
                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 python3
 python3-apt
 python3-dbus
 language-selector-common
 ubuntu-drivers-common
 python3-pkg-resources
 python3-chardet
 python3-debian

 python3-lxml
 python3-numpy
 python3-pil:armhf
 python3-pip
 python3-polib
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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  • You've not mentioned your OS/release details, and detail provided in heading should be repeated in the question (some browser/device configs do not show heading when viewing the opened page so your text has no question for those devices). With your question, release details are very important as details differ with more modern releases.
    – guiverc
    Mar 14, 2020 at 6:12
  • I'm using Ubuntu Mate (Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.10.105-141 armv7l))
    – Siddharth
    Mar 14, 2020 at 6:23
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    If this is something online, I'd take this opportunity to switch to a supported release of Ubuntu MATE. All flavors of 16.04 LTS except for Kylin are now EOL, or for Ubuntu-MATE 16.04 the notice is ubuntu-mate.community/t/… Only main Ubuntu desktop, server, Ubuntu Core, (and for 16.04 Kylin) are still supported. Use ubuntu-support-status to view for your actual device, but flavors only have 3 years of supported life (fridge.ubuntu.com/2019/03/01/ubuntu-16-04-6-lts-released) & 4.4 was the supported kernel of Ubuntu-MATE 16.04
    – guiverc
    Mar 14, 2020 at 7:14

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i uninstalled the python2 with sudo apt-get remove

Well that is a mistake, at least with Ubuntu 16.04 (and earlier) including it's derivates.
Both Python versions are used within e.g. apt-get and all it's sub-functions.

And sadly, I have yet to spot a description of how to "repair" that mistake, other than reinstalling the OS.

If you have e.g. synaptic installed - you might try to reinstall Python2, but that might just be the beginning of what is required.

NOTE: The above problem is probably present also with trying to upgrade the included python versions.

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