I am trying to get Django/Python to run on my computer, but it's confusing that python runs Python v2 while there is also a Python v3 installed which needs to be run as python3 (both come preinstalled?!) and either way, the Django installer complains.
Anyway, I was trying to remove Django and the Python PIP installation utility, so I ran the command: sudo apt-get autoremove python-pip* and the terminal output frankly scares me: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=b0RHs3e4
It looks like it removed all kinds of things I didn't expect, including obviously vital and non-Python things like ubuntu-desktop and unity8-common and even software-center!
I'm afraid that if I log out of my session or reboot, then I'll never get this computer started again.
What damage did I just do, and how can I recover? Why where all of these removed in the first place? How did "autoremove" trigger these to be included? (Luckily, my actual data is safely backed up.)
Update 1:
The answer linked in the comment below looks relevant but not complete. Following the linked answer, my system did reinstall many packages as expected -- but others were not, so they are still missing from my system. Still worried whether my machine is broken. Among the removed-and-not-reinstalled packages are:
- account-plugin-tools
- accountsservice-ubuntu-schemas
- address-book-service
- dbus-property-service
- dcraw
- exiftran
- ffmpegthumbnailer
- libhardware2
- libhybris
- libmedia1
- libmirplatform6
- libmirserver30
- libpay2
- system-image-common
- system-image-dbus
- unity-plugin-scopes
- unity-scope-scopes
- unity8-common
- urfkill
- xcftools
- ... and many others
Can I just reinstall these with apt-get as well?
Update 2:
As suggested in comments, I will now do sudo apt-get install --install-suggests {my list of removed packages}. Curiously, even core things like software-center were removed and are not even suggested. So I must include those explicitly in my command.
And I'm still afraid to reboot my computer. I hate it when I make nasty mistakes like this one, because I'm not guru enough to feel safe that I reliably fixed it again.
sudo apt-get installin front of them. The packageaptitself does not depend on python, as far as I can tell. – Jos Nov 16 '15 at 21:44ubuntu-desktop. Try with--install-recommendsor--install-suggests. – muru Nov 16 '15 at 22:01software-centeris not widely considered a core application. It is not much more than a front end for theaptandaptitudepackages. Your system will not stop working without it. – Jos Nov 16 '15 at 22:28