Please can you help me to restore my Kubuntu computer to normal after being gradually closed down by a foolish command which I executed.
The computer was originally installed with a 7.10 distro and its hardware data reported to the Kubuntu Hardware Database on 2nd March and this ID was issued for it:
4e8fa6f805592b4524f99a78a5db1401
Two batches of “updates” yielded a distro of 8.04. The next batch of “updates” on 10th July gave some errors (in a number of the updated files) but did not affect the use I was making of the computer until I downloaded a tutorial file “Think Python” and applied some early exercises on the command line.
Inputting “>>>help()” gave rational information and tips, including e.g. inputting help > “modules” which should yield a list of modules each of which comes with a one line summary of what it does.
In practice this input eventually yielded:
“Attribute Error: module object has no attribute;
‘Date Time – Get Number of Days in Year’”
I decided to delete all the python software that had been previously installed (which had possibly been affected by the last batch of updates) and then reinstall python software from the internet.
The deletion stage went well but then I foolishly clicked the still running session to load fresh files ! This caused chaos, including a message that “KDE is unavailable” After twice closing down the computer ceased to be capable of booting.
The computer was originally installed with a 7.10 distro and its hardware data reported to the Kubuntu Hardware Database on 2nd March and this ID was issued for it:
4e8fa6f805592b4524f99a78a5db1401
Two batches of “updates” yielded a distro of 8.04. The next batch of “updates” on 10th July gave some errors (in a number of the updated files) but did not affect the use I was making of the computer until I downloaded a tutorial file “Think Python” and applied some early exercises on the command line.
Inputting “>>>help()” gave rational information and tips, including e.g. inputting help > “modules” which should yield a list of modules each of which comes with a one line summary of what it does.
In practice this input eventually yielded:
“Attribute Error: module object has no attribute;
‘Date Time – Get Number of Days in Year’”
I decided to delete all the python software that had been previously installed (which had possibly been affected by the last batch of updates) and then reinstall python software from the internet.
The deletion stage went well but then I foolishly clicked the still running session to load fresh files ! This caused chaos, including a message that “KDE is unavailable” After twice closing down the computer ceased to be capable of booting.
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