I broke python: what can I do? [closed]

I have a big problem on my Ubuntu 64 bits...

I tried to clean a python test I made when I had compiled a modified python version. But I think I broke everything :s

now, when I launch cmd "python3", I have:

>python3 Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix> Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>] Fatal Python error: Py_Initialize: Unable to get the locale encoding ImportError: No module named 'encodings' Aborted 

I can't "apt-get install python3.3" and I can't remove it...

I tried:

apt-get clean apt-get autoclean apt-get update apt-get upgrade 

nothing

I don't no what I can do now...

EDIT: I think too much is broken. Luckily, I backed up my VM a week ago. So I restored it as before.

Next time that I would like to reinstall a package properly, I will use "sudo apt-get install - reinstall python3". (thanks)

However I think we can't uninstall python3 when it is compiled at home ().... "make: *** No rule to make target `uninstall'. Stop." :)

thank you all !

3 Answers

Reinstall python:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall python3 

Maybe you could try an apt-get remove python-3.3, then apt-get clean, apt-get update, and then apt-get install python-3.3 ?

If you just need it to work and don't care about the old setup you could download python and compile it in some specific location and just run it from there. See: