Ubuntu-desktop won’t download

Question

I accidentally deleted my ubuntu desktop and now I have no way of redownloading it. I’ve tried to do a sudo apt update and upgrade. When I type

Sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop

I get the following issue: Package ‘Ubuntu-desktop’ has no installation candidate. I tried everything including deleting the list file, cleaning, updating, upgrading, etc. please help

Version: Ubuntu 21.10

21.10 has reached the end of life (EOL). It's repositories have been archived. As the repositories are not there, apt cannot download Ubuntu-desktop. Questions about EOL versions of Ubuntu are off topic here. — user68186, May 20 '23 at 16:35
Does this answer your question? How to install software or upgrade from an old unsupported release? — nobody, May 20 '23 at 16:38
The way people answer questions on here is so condescending. It’s obvious I know how to type case sensitive command line prompts. The problem is not the case sensitivity otherwise it would have given a different error (duh). If you can’t help and don’t know how to resolve the problem, don’t be a jerk — Mar Mustafa, May 20 '23 at 17:46
At this point, this version of ubuntu is not anymore supported. Download Ubuntu 22.04 (supported until April 2027), and write it to a live USB. You can perform backup of any necessary files from the live environment, and then perform a fresh installation of Ubuntu 22.04. — Archisman Panigrahi, May 20 '23 at 18:07

aqwertya · Accepted Answer · 2023-05-20T18:47:00.093

Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) End of Life reached on July 14 2022.

Ubuntu 21.10 is no longer supported. It is archived to old-releases.ubuntu.com. You have edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change 'archive.ubuntu.com' to 'old-releases.ubuntu.com'.

This can be done by typing

sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list

in the terminal. After running this command, run sudo apt update && Sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop. It is best you update to a newer and supported version of Ubuntu unless you have a very specific and genuine reason to stay on Ubuntu 21.10.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 20 '23 at 19:36

If you are trapped you can try installing an alternative DE like cinnamon or KDE. To install KDE use the following command

sudo apt install kde-plasma-desktop

or you can upgrade your desktop using the command

sudo do-release-upgrade

Hope this helps you.

Ubuntu-desktop won’t download

2 Answers2

Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) End of Life reached on July 14 2022.