Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-02 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 02:02:31 am spa...@gmail.com wrote: > I use OS X / Windows and I have not noticed any dependency issues. > So I was not aware about the same with respect to Ubuntu. I am glad > that I learnt something from this discussion. In general, you should never uninstall any package you d

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-02 Thread Joel M.
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Prasad, Ramit wrote: > >I use OS X / Windows and I have not noticed any dependency issues. So I > was not aware about the same with respect to Ubuntu. I am glad that I > learnt something from this discussion. > > I might be wrong, but Ubuntu itself is not dependent

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-02 Thread Prasad, Ramit
>I use OS X / Windows and I have not noticed any dependency issues. So I was >not aware about the same with respect to Ubuntu. I am glad that I learnt >something from this discussion. I might be wrong, but Ubuntu itself is not dependent on Python. You can probably run a minimalist headless Ubun

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-02 Thread spawgi
I use OS X / Windows and I have not noticed any dependency issues. So I was not aware about the same with respect to Ubuntu. I am glad that I learnt something from this discussion. Regards, Sumod On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Joel Montes de Oca wrote: > On 11/02/2011 02:26 AM, spa...@gmail.com

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-02 Thread Joel Montes de Oca
On 11/02/2011 02:26 AM, spa...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be treated as a bug then? As a user I should be allowed to uninstall the software I want to. Or you uninstalled other things by mistake? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Joel Montes de Oca mailto:joelmonte...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-02 Thread Alan Gauld
On 02/11/11 06:26, spa...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be treated as a bug then? As a user I should be allowed to uninstall the software I want to. You can, it just breaks stuff that depends on it. Just as if you uninstalled Java all your Java applications would break (eg Eclipse, Freemind e

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-01 Thread Hugo Arts
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 7:26 AM, wrote: > Shouldn't this be treated as a bug then? As a user I should be allowed to > uninstall the software I want to. > Or you uninstalled other things by mistake? I don't think this is a bug. Python 2.7 is required software for both Gnome and Unity. Without it n

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-01 Thread Christian Witts
On 2011/11/02 08:26 AM, spa...@gmail.com wrote: Shouldn't this be treated as a bug then? As a user I should be allowed to uninstall the software I want to. Or you uninstalled other things by mistake? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Joel Montes de Oca mailto:joelmonte...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-01 Thread spawgi
Shouldn't this be treated as a bug then? As a user I should be allowed to uninstall the software I want to. Or you uninstalled other things by mistake? On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Joel Montes de Oca wrote: > On Tue 01 Nov 2011 08:56:41 PM EDT, Max gmail wrote: > >> Heh, yeah. It's usually a

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-01 Thread Max gmail
Heh, yeah. It's usually a bad idea to do stuff like that (I know a guy (Windows) who deleted his OS of his system). On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Joel Montes de Oca wrote: > I just discovered that it is a bad idea to complete uninstall Python 2.7 on > Ubuntu 11.10. If you do, expect a lot of thi

Re: [Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-01 Thread Joel Montes de Oca
On Tue 01 Nov 2011 08:56:41 PM EDT, Max gmail wrote: Heh, yeah. It's usually a bad idea to do stuff like that (I know a guy (Windows) who deleted his OS of his system). On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:40 PM, Joel Montes de Oca wrote: I just discovered that it is a bad idea to complete uninstall Python

[Tutor] Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 - Do not unintall

2011-11-01 Thread Joel Montes de Oca
I just discovered that it is a bad idea to complete uninstall Python 2.7 on Ubuntu 11.10. If you do, expect a lot of things not to work, mainly your system. haha I just reinstalled Python 2.7 and I hope things are not so bad now when I reboot. -- -Joel M. ___