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While trying to free some space by unistalling some useless applications, I accidently have choosen the python file to be unistalled, then something wrong happens, most of programs of Ubuntu 10.10 were unistalled and much worse, the laptop was not responding.

I tried to restart, then I had the bad surprise: and error message saying that the graphic interface is not available anymore, i can access in a textual mode, do you think that i can get back my installation without reinstalling all the OS?

Please help me if you can.

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  • To reinstall, run this from the command line (you said you can still access 'text mode'):

    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard ubuntu-desktop

    This should get your base setup working again, but I cannot say if any programs you manually installed will still be there as python is a critical package as you now know*.

  • If this does not work, you can try to recover your system with a live CD. See this answer about how to access your broken system from a live CD via chroot.

    At point 6 you would need to reinstall all the things that were removed. As I don't know the current state of your broken system, you may or may not need to run the commands from the linked answer. Then, like above, run:

    apt-get install ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard ubuntu-desktop

*) If you didn't choose to also delete configuration files, you might be able to easily reinstall the software via Synaptic: select the Not installed (residual config) item in the left pane, then select the software in the right pane for reinstallation:

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  • well unfortunately i tried both and it didn't work!!! – Hopedz May 14 '11 at 03:42
  • Can you be more specific? What exactly didn't work? What were the errors you got? – htorque May 14 '11 at 07:43
  • hi, again when i run the first command sudo apt-get install ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-standard ubuntu-desktop , i got the error message : E: impossible to get http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/totem ..... and when i tried to use the second method (live CD) i had same kind of message, i think that the problem is in the sources.list file, but i don't know how to add a link in the sources.file while i have only access to the command line. – Hopedz May 14 '11 at 19:52
  • @wafadz Have you been connected to the internet when trying the live CD? – htorque May 15 '11 at 07:57
  • @htorque, First, thanks for you kind help. I couldn't get back my installation I downloaded an ISO image of ubuntu 11.04 (32 bits),and I have burnt the ISO using the "burn as image" option. 11.04 64bit didn't work properly even though I have a 64bit CPU. I also had some trouble to configure my ethernet card under 10.04 but when I installed the version 11.04 32 bits, it worked and it is really a stable and I could reinstall my software and it is working properly. – Hopedz Jun 09 '11 at 21:15