After upgrade Ubuntu 20.04 from to 22.04 there is only command line interface, GUI doesn't work

Question

Ubuntu cannot login Graphical User Interface. when try to install

sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop

Says some packages could not be installed. The following packages have unmet dependencies gstreamer1.0-pipewire : depends: pipewire(=0.3.48-1ubuntu1) but it is not installable. E: Unable unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I uninstalled pipewire and that dependencies.

Startx

Also not working

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It's hard to help without a full error message. You can at least post a picture of the output if you can't copy and paste. — Quasímodo, Aug 19 '22 at 23:46
Also not working, this time 3 pipewire dependencies unmet error — Kandhaswamy, Aug 22 '22 at 15:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 22 '22 at 17:49

Here it is how I solved this problem

I manually edited the status file using nano

sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/status

and removed pipewire Ubuntu 20.04 dependencies paragraphs and saved

Note, I'm not remove packages

then

sudo apt update

sudo apt upgrade

now I can log in Graphical User Interface

refrence

I can't remove packages that have unmet dependencies

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 27 '22 at 07:22

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Adding this ppa solved the issue for me:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream

And then

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

answered Aug 27 '22 at 07:22

malsfdx

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Actually, I solved this issue and then answered my question. Your method doesn't work for me. Anyway, thanks for your participant. – Kandhaswamy Aug 27 '22 at 08:53

After upgrade Ubuntu 20.04 from to 22.04 there is only command line interface, GUI doesn't work

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