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I accidentally deleted /usr/bin/python and now I can't run my terminal - gnome-terminal. When I try to run it using XTerm it says:

/usr/bin/python3: bad interpreter: no such file or directory

When I symlink /usr/bin/python3 with the Python that I downloaded then it says that I am missing some packages (for example Gi)

How can I return it back to working as it used to be?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04.

I think that the problem is that this Ubuntu version has some packages that the new python that I installed don't have.

I tried installing python3-minimal but it says that I don't have py3compile and py3clean

ubuntu python

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  Are you sure that /usr/bin/python is all that you deleted? On Ubuntu 16.04, AFAIK that should have just been a symbolic link to /usr/bin/python2.7 What "new python" did you install, and how, exactly?
  
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  I deleted all python that was under /usr/bin. By new python I meant, python 3.5. I compiled it from source and linked it to /usr/bin/python
  
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  xterm doesn't depend upon python (though the desktop may...). switching to a virtual console would let you run apt-get to restore things.
  
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  XTerm works, but when I run apt-get it gives me "No Module Debian"..
  
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  Boot into single user mode, solve your problems there, and change to multi-user mode.
  
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I accidentally deleted /usr/bin/python and now I can't run my terminal - gnome-terminal. When I try to run it using XTerm it says:

/usr/bin/python3: bad interpreter: no such file or directory

When I symlink /usr/bin/python3 with the Python that I downloaded then it says that I am missing some packages (for example Gi)

How can I return it back to working as it used to be?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04.

I think that the problem is that this Ubuntu version has some packages that the new python that I installed don't have.

I tried installing python3-minimal but it says that I don't have py3compile and py3clean

ubuntu python

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edited Nov 27 '16 at 0:19

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  Are you sure that /usr/bin/python is all that you deleted? On Ubuntu 16.04, AFAIK that should have just been a symbolic link to /usr/bin/python2.7 What "new python" did you install, and how, exactly?
  
  – steeldriver
  Nov 26 '16 at 18:59
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  I deleted all python that was under /usr/bin. By new python I meant, python 3.5. I compiled it from source and linked it to /usr/bin/python
  
  – Lee
  Nov 26 '16 at 19:00
  
  
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  xterm doesn't depend upon python (though the desktop may...). switching to a virtual console would let you run apt-get to restore things.
  
  – Thomas Dickey
  Nov 26 '16 at 19:09
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  XTerm works, but when I run apt-get it gives me "No Module Debian"..
  
  – Lee
  Nov 26 '16 at 19:23
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Boot into single user mode, solve your problems there, and change to multi-user mode.
  
  – boardrider
  Nov 26 '16 at 22:33
  

  
  
  
  

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I accidentally deleted /usr/bin/python and now I can't run my terminal - gnome-terminal. When I try to run it using XTerm it says:

/usr/bin/python3: bad interpreter: no such file or directory

When I symlink /usr/bin/python3 with the Python that I downloaded then it says that I am missing some packages (for example Gi)

How can I return it back to working as it used to be?
I am running Ubuntu 16.04.

I think that the problem is that this Ubuntu version has some packages that the new python that I installed don't have.

I tried installing python3-minimal but it says that I don't have py3compile and py3clean

ubuntu python

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Turns out that when I installed python from source, it didn't look at dist-packages which is where the debian module was.
So, I copied all the files from dist-packages to site-packages.
And then linked python3 to /usr/bin/python
And started installing stuff again..

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Turns out that when I installed python from source, it didn't look at dist-packages which is where the debian module was.
So, I copied all the files from dist-packages to site-packages.
And then linked python3 to /usr/bin/python
And started installing stuff again..

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answered Nov 26 '16 at 23:19

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Turns out that when I installed python from source, it didn't look at dist-packages which is where the debian module was.
So, I copied all the files from dist-packages to site-packages.
And then linked python3 to /usr/bin/python
And started installing stuff again..

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answered Nov 26 '16 at 23:19

LeeLee

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Turns out that when I installed python from source, it didn't look at dist-packages which is where the debian module was.
So, I copied all the files from dist-packages to site-packages.
And then linked python3 to /usr/bin/python
And started installing stuff again..

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answered Nov 26 '16 at 23:19

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