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# whereis python3
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... if the package is installed already, remove/uninstall it.
... reinstall python3
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# apt-get install python3
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# apt-get update && apt-get autoremove &&...

I believe I've rectified the mariadb-server problem. I first cd'd into the directory /var/lib/mysql and backed up everything in there to another directory, in my case I used /var/lib/mysqlbkup . ...

Understood.. It's already commented out, if you take another look. Thanks.

Good day, I'm on a Toshiba Satellite i7 running Linux dual booting with Win10.

root@scallion:~# id; uname -a; lsb_release -a

uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
Linux scallion...