My Network Notification icon not showing Ubuntu Kylin 14.04

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I know this is a question asked a lot,but I have tried almost every solution out there and the network icon is still not showing. I am using Ubuntu Kylin 14.04.

I tried to access nm-applet but it said that it was not installed.

The problem with the other solutions was that they required update or installing from terminal, but I do not have any internet connection available so any of these solutions do not work for me.

I also tried this solution proposed

$ sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager stop
$ sudo rm /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
$ sudo /etc/init.d/network-manager start

I tried to go to the file NetworkManager and change the status to true.

Can anyone suggest me some other solution? Or should I just reinstall Ubuntu again?

Have you tried reinstalling the network indicator ? tried reinstalling network manager ? — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, May 14 '16 at 18:20
@Serg How do I do that? Does it requires internet? If not how? — fjoralba, May 14 '16 at 18:21
yes, it does require internet, you can use wired internet. And for indicator there's couple of ways. 1) sudo apt-get install --reinstall indicator-network 2) sudo apt-get install indicator-applet-complete . For reinstalling network manager , try this: sudo apt-get install --reinstall network-manager or see if any of these work for you — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, May 14 '16 at 18:31
Well, this is the best I can suggest. Maybe others will have better ideas — Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy, May 14 '16 at 18:40
Did you check aswers here? You can download newer network-manager package on different machine and pass it via usb (as in my answer) or use Ubuntu's built-in recovery mode (as in Jit's answer). — tamkderplar, May 14 '16 at 20:18

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 15 '16 at 06:10

After a lot of failed attempts, I tried the solution @tamkderplar suggested to use Ubuntu's recover mode. Unfortunately it did not work.

So I tried my last resource, I used the update from USB stick. And since I was there I also updated my Ubuntu Kylin from 14.04 to 16.04.

Finally the network icon showed up.

I do not know why none of the solutions worked for me though.

My Network Notification icon not showing Ubuntu Kylin 14.04

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