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I've had a big problem and can't resolve it even with Google's help..

I'm stuck on the terminal / shell from Ubuntu; which is on VMWARE Workstation on Windows 10.

I would like to get the GUI / interface GNOME I think, back.

I was at first on the GUI, I started to lose internet connection but I didn't care.

But after the VM "locked" itself, i tried to get back on it with my password but the keyboard didn't work.

So I restarted it but it was the shell/terminal view and not the GUI..

I had python 2.7 and 3.8 installed by myself, I had to uninstall python3.8 (I had a problem by running Matlab with it so I tried to get only one version of python needed from the application I was using).

I've read that the purge of python might be the origin of the problem of the GUI; and that I just had few commands to do to switch back to the GUI, but these commands require "sudo install or upgrade or update..." like:

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sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

"

I wanted to do everything on that page : GUI feature missing from full ubuntu installation 18.04 but I haven't internet on the vmware now so I cannot do anything I get "Erreur temporaire de résolution "us.archive.ubuntu.com" for every package i try to install or update or upgrade

If anyone has a clue for this ? :3

PS: the host has internet ..

Thanks

Yukinae
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  • Did you boot into a root shell prompt with networking? You need networking to access the repos over the internet – Nmath Apr 05 '22 at 16:21

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2 options.

The first one (and less likely to work) is to get into a tty and type nmtui to access Network Manager TUI and use that to connect to the internet, then you should be able to execute the apt commands you are trying to run.

The second one is to boot into a live session of Ubuntu (using Ubuntu iso) and chroot into your root folder. From there you can do sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Parker
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