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 <joelmonte...@gmail.com>wrote: > 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 < >> joelmonte...@gmail.com <mailto:joelmonte...@gmail.com**>> wrote: >> >> 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 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. >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org <mailto:Tutor@python.org> >> >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> >> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/tutor<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> >> >> >> >> Yea, It wiped out GNOME and UNITY along with a few other >> applications. It wasn't a big deal tho, I just reinstalled >> ubuntu-desktop threw apt-get. :) >> >> >> >> -- -Joel M. >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org <mailto:Tutor@python.org> >> >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> >> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/tutor<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> http://spawgi.wordpress.com >> We can do it and do it better. >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> To unsubscribe or change subscription options: >> http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/tutor<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> >> > > Spawgi, > > Like a few people have mentioned before, this isn't a bug. Unity and GNOME > rely on Python 2.7 to work, which is fine. When I uninstalled Python2.7 > GNOME and Unity didn't have a way to run their py files, which results in a > broken environment. The package manager was smart enough to list everything > that was going to be uninstalled since they rely on Python. So instead of > leaving broken systems on my computer, it uninstalled all the packages that > would had been broken, including Unity and GNOME. > > I just want to add one thing that hasn't been mentioned yet. The only bug > was the one called Joel M, which failed to read the uninstall list until > later when I noticed my environments were being uninstalled. haha! > > Synaptic, the package manager I was using, listed everything that was > going to be uninstalled but I didn't read it. I didn't realize how many > system tools used python until later. Live and learn. > > It wasn't a big deal. All I had to do was reinstall Python2.7 and reboot. > Of course, after the reboot, I didn't have an environment to log into. So I > pressed Ctr + Alt + F1 to get into tty1 and then ran sudo apt-get install > ubuntu-desktop. That took care of the missing environment. Then I restarted > with sudo shutdown -r now. I didn't really need to do that since I think > restarting X was enough but I restarted anyhow. > > As far as the comments about Ubuntu 11.10 being buggy. I don't think it's > Ubuntu 11.10 that is buggy, I think it's Unity that is a bit buggy. I use > Unity and sometimes applications do crash or fail to open when you click on > their icons... Like I said, I think it's an issue with Unity but I can't > say for sure since I haven't used another environment since I installed > Ubuntu 11.10. > > > -- > -Joel M. > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/**mailman/listinfo/tutor<http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor> > -- http://spawgi.wordpress.com We can do it and do it better.
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