I tried to install the newest version of Python in my Ubuntu laptop. When I finished installing it, I realized that my Terminal and some other apps were gone. They were not among my favorites where I had them and I searched for them and they were gone.
I restarted my laptop to see if that fixed the problem. When it turned on, it automatically went to tty terminal.
I searched online and I found this forum so I run:
sudo apt-get remove --purge gnome-terminal
and:
sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal
However, I got:
Errors were encountered while processing:
update-notifier-common
Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I searched online and I tried running all solutions in this article one by one:
sudo apt remove --purge update-notifier-common
Once I did this, the Sub-process error disappeared and I (apparently) was able to install the Terminal again, but now it does not open.
Again, in the tty terminal I run:
gnome-terminal --version
And it says:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/gnome-terminal", line 9, in <module>
from gi.repository import GLib, Gio
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gi'
For this issue I found this thread from 7 years ago. Some of the solutions given there are not recommended by other users, so I avoided them. From this thread, I tried the following:
sudo update-alternatives --config python3
and it said:
update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for python 3
At this point, I don't know what else to do. The last thread seems a bit outdated. Can anyone help me with some updated solutions? I'd appreciate it.
