@MichaelJohn something is terribly wrong with your python env

@Braiam ^^

ugh

@MichaelJohn when you got time: type dpkg -S /usr/lib/python2.7, it should output a big list of packages, download them all with apt-get download package1 package2 ... and install them with dpkg --install *.deb, that should restore your directory

afterwards, check again if python got correctly installed, post the output of sudo dpkg -C and try to fix whatever is still broken, once you manage to configure everything (when the output of dpkg -C is empty), download and install debsums, and run debsums -as

@Braiam yes. that's probably the cause of his problems. The packaging system understandably freaked out

@Braiam better is to do with just python-2.7 and python2.7-minimal. That should get rid of the errors, and he can fix up the other python stuff using debcheck -s or similar.

@FaheemMitha actually, libpython2.7-minimal is more important

@Braiam Oh, well, maybe that too.

@Anthon meta.stackexchange.com/q/248511/213575

@Braiam thanks for the link. I was wondering why we were pointed to meta reviews, it is not as if there were hundreds of reviews on meta waiting for weeks without being handled. I haven't even got Custodian on all queues.

@Anthon maybe a lazy reminder

I normally don't find anything in meta either

Nor does there seem to be the urgency to get things closed etc. that you can have on the main site

I haven't been on SO-meta for a while, maybe it is different there.

I got more rep in one day for answering one single U&L question then answering 10 questions on AU... Did anyone ever have the same experience?

@Fabby I got more rep answering one AU question than in 10 average U&L questions. Though not in one day.

@FaheemMitha :) Thanks!

Probably because most (all?) of the other answers were wrong. Typical AU.

By wrong, read ridiculous, really.

People really shouldn't give advice about things they know nothing about.