fix Your python3 install is corrupted. Please fix the '/usr/bin/python3' symlink.

fix-os-upgrade.md

sudo apt install --reinstall python3

sudo apt install --reinstall python

sudo update-alternatives --remove-all python

sudo update-alternatives --remove-all python3

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/python

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/python3.6 /usr/bin/python3

HI I have this issue however, Am new to the entire concept, does your gist means reverting to Python 2.7? I want my default in 3.10 which I upgraded from 3.8 recently

thanks! this worked perfectly...

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please note that some older Linux distributions were based upon python 2.x and you would corrupt the system if "python" was set to be a "python3" version. there were times where v2 was mandatory and v3 was optional. this meanwhile has sort of swapped.

beyond that i have not yet ever checked if alternatives selection will allow to have a per-system or per-user preference for a specific python major/minor version. instead there is lots of people going for per-project virtual environment tooling (venv, et.al.) in user space - or folks that use docker and similar runtime image setups - all is sort of a decoupling from the system's python and module setup.

Thank you! You saved hours of my day.

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Worked! Thank you!

Very helpful!

I used 3.5 for 16.04

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It's 3.10 for 22.04