[SOLVED] switched from Windows to Mint 22, Python3 issues

Hey, I've just made the switch from Windows 11 to Linux Mint 22 after seeing and hearing good things about it.

I've run into an issue with Python3 either not being present on my install, or being corrupted somehow?

I installed Mint 22 from the download site using Balena Etcher and it all worked fine, however, after rebooting and trying to install updates from software manager it just would not open, I've looked in Synaptic package manager and it says that 1 package is broken which is Python.

I've tried getting it to download from the command line but it's possible that I was using the wrong commands (google)

I'm kind of stuck, not sure what to do.

Is there some additional repositories that I need to add to fix this?

I don't have anything installed at the moment which could have broken it.

I've tried re downloading the 'broken' items in Synaptics but it gives me a 'failed to fetch error' from the Vorboss mirror?

many thanks

oh god, ok bit more googling and I found adding the deadsnakes ppa to the repository manager downloaded python from that and now software manager works again :D