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This is a pretty dumb question, but is ubuntu dependent on Python 3.8? If it is not, how can I uninstall it from my system?

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  • take a look at [this](https://askubuntu.com/a/13297/1128400) – kevinnls Mar 26 '21 at 17:41
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    Out of curiosity, why do you want to delete it? If you need another version of python, just install it and leave 3.8 in case you need it for something else. – Michael Mar 26 '21 at 17:44
  • @Michael i don't like to left things that im not using anymore installed on my machine rofl –  Mar 26 '21 at 17:49
  • Check out askubuntu.com for questions concerning the installation or removal of packages on Ubuntu. This is not a programming question and off-topic here. – Ulrich Eckhardt Mar 26 '21 at 20:18

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You can uninstall it after installing a python3* version as alternative. You have to install python3.9 available from Ubuntu repository.

sudo apt install python3.9

Here is how to set it as default before uninstalling python3.8.

Without a python3 installed the system will be unusable.

Python3 by default

GAD3R
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The advantage of using apt autoremove is to remove Python along with its dependencies.

sudo apt autoremove python3 -y

For more information, check the answer given here.

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Eurowebs Engineering SL
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Don't uninstall python3 in ubuntu as it is depended on many python packages if you delete that terminal, firefox browser,idle , will also delete and at last it will show you authentication error

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I found the easiest way actually is to simply install the latest pip...

curl -sS https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py | python3.8
Chibueze Opata
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Take a look at this:
From @progmatico, it's not recommended that you uninstall builtins on Ubuntu such as Python. You can update Python, but it's not reccomended to uninstall. You can uninstall Python 2.x here, but unless you have Python 2 installed on your machine, this won't be much help. Unless ROM is tight(if not, I suggest the Raspberry Pi(switchable SD cards)), you don't need to have Python uninstalled.
In summary, you don't need to uninstall Python, it's a great coding language ;)

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