when i typed the command: sudo apt update then its showing the problem listed below:
tom@boy:~$ sudo apt update
[sudo] password for tom:
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/deadsnakes/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:2 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease
Hit:3 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
Hit:5 http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/sylvain-pineau/kazam/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:8 http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Hit:9 http://np.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Python path configuration:
PYTHONHOME = (not set)
PYTHONPATH = (not set)
program name = '/usr/bin/python3'
isolated = 0
environment = 1
user site = 1
import site = 1
sys._base_executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
sys.base_prefix = '/usr'
sys.base_exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
sys.prefix = '/usr'
sys.exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.path = [
'/usr/lib/python38.zip',
'/usr/lib/python3.8',
'/usr/lib/lib-dynload',
]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x00007f135d32d740 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>
Reading package lists... Done
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/lib/command-not-found/ -a -e /usr/lib/cnf-update-db; then /usr/lib/cnf-update-db > /dev/null; fi'
E: Sub-process returned an error code
I have already tried using the command
tom@boy:~$ sudo apt purge python2-minimal
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'python2-minimal' is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libpython2-stdlib libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib python2.7 python2.7-minimal
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 219 not upgraded.
3 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up apturl (0.5.2ubuntu19) ...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Python path configuration:
PYTHONHOME = (not set)
PYTHONPATH = (not set)
program name = '/usr/bin/python3'
isolated = 0
environment = 1
user site = 1
import site = 1
sys._base_executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
sys.base_prefix = '/usr'
sys.base_exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
sys.prefix = '/usr'
sys.exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.path = [
'/usr/lib/python38.zip',
'/usr/lib/python3.8',
'/usr/lib/lib-dynload',
]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x00007f1bae94d740 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>
dpkg: error processing package apturl (--configure):
installed apturl package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up python2.7 (2.7.18-1~20.04.1) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/python2.7.postinst: 9: /usr/bin/python2.7: not found
dpkg: error processing package python2.7 (--configure):
installed python2.7 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 127
Setting up python3-minimal (3.8.2-0ubuntu2) ...
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Could not find platform dependent libraries <exec_prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
Python path configuration:
PYTHONHOME = (not set)
PYTHONPATH = (not set)
program name = '/usr/bin/python3'
isolated = 0
environment = 1
user site = 1
import site = 1
sys._base_executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
sys.base_prefix = '/usr'
sys.base_exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.executable = '/usr/bin/python3'
sys.prefix = '/usr'
sys.exec_prefix = '/usr'
sys.path = [
'/usr/lib/python38.zip',
'/usr/lib/python3.8',
'/usr/lib/lib-dynload',
]
Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding
Python runtime state: core initialized
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings'
Current thread 0x00007fc23453e740 (most recent call first):
<no Python frame>
dpkg: error processing package python3-minimal (--configure):
installed python3-minimal package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
apturl
python2.7
python3-minimal
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
I am new towards python please help me regarding this question.
and my python file link is broken as well. Please help me regarding this stuff.