Stupidly uninstalled bunch of python modules with sudo

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Hi there

basically the title, trying to compile this app for Fedora 41 after an upgrade.

The author mentioned the following dependencies need to be installed:
- appdirs
- dbus-python
- evdev
- Pillow
- PyGObject
- pyusb

I ran using sudo and noted the warning about NOT doing this as it would cause conflicts with system packages, so stupidly ran the following command to correct:

sudo python -m pip uninstall appdirs dbus-python evdev Pillow PyGObject pyusb

I then received some warnings about not being able to uninstall system level dependencies (and I accidentally closed my console window so can’t get that specific error).

Now when I try to install dbus-python (with sudo or not) I get the following error

../subprojects/dbus-gmain/meson.build:107:11: ERROR: Dependency "dbus-1" not found, tried pkgconfig

So a bit of a calamity of errors really.

So key questions:

  1. Did I break something important with the sudo uninstall?
  2. If so how do I correct what I did in #1
  3. Lastly, how do I get dbus-python installed?

TIA for any suggestions.

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You may need to re-install the python3-appdirs and python3-dbus system packages by running sudo dnf reinstall python3-appdirs python3-dbus.

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Added f41, python

4

That did the trick thank you so much! Hopefully no other damage from what I did!

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It looks like you may also need to reinstall python3-pillow and python3-gobject, since both may have been removed by the pip uninstall command.

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And for future reference – NEVER use sudo with pip.

Pip will check if it is running as a normal user and then install the packages under ~/.local/lib/python3.xx/site-packages so they are only able to be used by the user and do not conflict with the system installed python packages.

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