I am trying to remove python but I am being told it will remove almost all my packages install (exaggeration). How can I just remove python 3.8 and not all the other packages?
hutber@hutber:/var/www$ sudo apt-get purge python3.8
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libexpat1-dev libgsf-bin libmspack0 libpython3-dev libpython3.8-dev libxmlsec1-openssl python-pip-whl zerofree zlib1g-dev
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
libutempter0 xterm
Suggested packages:
xfonts-cyrillic
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apparmor* apt-clone* aptdaemon* apturl* apturl-common* blueberry* bulky* caribou* celluloid* cinnamon* cinnamon-common* cinnamon-control-center* cinnamon-control-center-dbg*
cinnamon-dbg* cinnamon-desktop-data* cinnamon-screensaver* cinnamon-session* cinnamon-settings-daemon* command-not-found* dkms* drawing* firefox* foomatic-db-compressed-ppds*
gdebi* gdebi-core* gir1.2-cinnamondesktop-3.0* gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0* gir1.2-xapp-1.0* gnome-menus* gnome-online-accounts* gnome-terminal* gufw* gvfs-backends* hplip*
hplip-data* hypnotix* libcinnamon-desktop-dbg* libcinnamon-desktop4* libmpv1* libsmbclient* libxapp1* lightdm-settings* lsb-release* mint-common* mint-meta-cinnamon*
mint-meta-core* mintbackup* mintdrivers* mintinstall* mintlocale* mintmenu* mintreport* mintsources* mintstick* mintsystem* mintupdate* mintwelcome* nemo* nemo-data*
nemo-dbg* nemo-fileroller* nemo-preview* nemo-share* netplan.io* network-manager-gnome* networkd-dispatcher* nvidia-prime-applet* onboard* onboard-common* open-vm-tools*
open-vm-tools-desktop* openprinting-ppds* orca* pix* pix-dbg* plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text* printer-driver-foo2zjs* printer-driver-foo2zjs-common* printer-driver-m2300w*
printer-driver-postscript-hp* printer-driver-ptouch* printer-driver-pxljr* printer-driver-sag-gdi* python3* python3-apport* python3-apt* python3-aptdaemon*
python3-aptdaemon.gtk3widgets* python3-blinker* python3-brlapi* python3-bs4* python3-cairo* python3-certifi* python3-cffi-backend* python3-chardet* python3-click*
python3-colorama* python3-commandnotfound* python3-configobj* python3-crypto* python3-cryptography* python3-cups* python3-cupshelpers* python3-dbus* python3-debian*
python3-defer* python3-dev* python3-distro* python3-distutils* python3-entrypoints* python3-gdbm* python3-gi* python3-gi-cairo* python3-grpcio* python3-httplib2* python3-icu*
python3-idna* python3-ifaddr* python3-imdbpy* python3-jwt* python3-keyring* python3-launchpadlib* python3-lazr.restfulclient* python3-lazr.uri* python3-ldb* python3-lib2to3*
python3-linecache2* python3-louis* python3-macaroonbakery* python3-magic* python3-mako* python3-markupsafe* python3-nacl* python3-netaddr* python3-netifaces*
python3-oauthlib* python3-packaging* python3-pam* python3-parted* python3-pbr* python3-pexpect* python3-pil* python3-pip* python3-pkg-resources* python3-problem-report*
python3-protobuf* python3-psutil* python3-ptyprocess* python3-pyatspi* python3-pycurl* python3-pyinotify* python3-pymacaroons* python3-pyparsing* python3-reportlab*
python3-reportlab-accel* python3-requests* python3-requests-file* python3-requests-unixsocket* python3-rfc3339* python3-samba* python3-secretstorage* python3-setproctitle*
python3-setuptools* python3-simplejson* python3-six* python3-soupsieve* python3-speechd* python3-systemd* python3-talloc* python3-tdb* python3-testresources*
python3-tinycss2* python3-tldextract* python3-traceback2* python3-tz* python3-unidecode* python3-unittest2* python3-uno* python3-urllib3* python3-wadllib*
python3-webencodings* python3-wheel* python3-xapp* python3-xdg* python3-xkit* python3-xlib* python3-xlrd* python3-yaml* python3.8* python3.8-dev* redshift-gtk*
rhythmbox-plugin-tray-icon* rhythmbox-plugins* samba-common-bin* samba-libs* slick-greeter* smbclient* sticky* synaptic* system-config-printer* system-config-printer-common*
system-config-printer-udev* thingy* timeshift* ubuntu-drivers-common* ubuntu-system-adjustments* ufw* warpinator* webapp-manager* xapps-common* xed* xed-dbg* xfsprogs* xorg*
xreader* xreader-dbg* xserver-xorg* xviewer* xviewer-dbg* xviewer-plugins* yelp* youtube-dl*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libutempter0 xterm
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
mintsources python3-apt (due to mintsources) python3-gi (due to mintsources) python3-gi-cairo (due to mintsources) python3-pycurl (due to mintsources)
python3-requests (due to mintsources) mint-common (due to mintsources) gir1.2-xapp-1.0 (due to mintsources) lsb-release (due to mintsources)
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 222 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
Need to get 773 kB of archives.
After this operation, 512 MB disk space will be freed.
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