ubuntu crash

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Fri,  8 Sep 2006 22:36:36 -0400, benjamin.grant at duke.edu <benjamin.grant at duke.edu> wrote:
> I typed in apt-get remove python
> and everything essentially was wiped off my computer.

You should have been told that [long list of important packages] would be
removed as well because they depended on Python, then been asked if you
still wanted to remove Python ...

> [...] I'd like to get my documentst
> back as well but doubt I'll be able to do this.
> [...] but can only log in as root.

Huh? If you can log in, you can certainly get your documents back! Take a
backup of at least /home, /var/spool/mail and /etc to USB stick, a free hard
disk partition, or across the network. Do it before doing anything else.

/Jorgen

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