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    [–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Not even, man. I accidentally ran sudo apt remove python3 instead of sudo apt remove python3-pip last week.

    I just copied my files to a flash drive and reinstalled Ubuntu lol

    [–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    whoops. Usually that stuff can be fixed with a reinstall. Normally uninstalls don't yeet all config for that kind of thing, unless you tell it to.

    [–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    It uninstalled a bunch of dependent packages too, including my graphics driver :(

    ah yes, a classic, uninstalling python and taking your GUI with it also.

    [–] lefaucet@slrpnk.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    sudo apt install python3 didnt do it?

    [–] QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

    It uninstalled a bunch of dependent packages too, including my graphics driver. I probably could have looked through the apt history and rolled them all back, but I don’t remember how to do that off the top of my head, and reinstalling took about 20 minutes.

    [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    Surely it asked you to confirm before it remove it and all that uses it. It was just doing as you told it to do and will have asked you to confirm. You can't blame it!

    [–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

    We can call it not user friendly though

    [–] jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 points 6 months ago

    How many times should it ask you if your sure? If it was serious, as in, it could actually break stuff, it gets you to type "do as I say" or something.