Everything disappeared from ubuntu desktop

I am posting this question from my phone as I am not able to access taskbar or any apps in the laptop(ubuntu 16.04, 64-bit).

After googling it I found this command

mv ~/.cache/compizconfig-1 ~/.cache/compizconfig-renamed
shutdown -r 0

Which did not work.

After which I tried to reinstall unity

sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

Which gave me following error

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)

Then I tried

sudo apt-get -f install

Which gave me dpkg error

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

After which we tried

sudo dpkg --configure -a

Which gave this error

/var/lib/dpkg/info/python3-minimal.postinst:Py3 compile:not found
Dpkg: error processing package python3-minimal(--configure):
Subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing python3-minimal

But I am not able to reinstall python3 as it again shows the error. I feel this is a loop of errors which I am not able to get out of. Any help is appreciated.

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