I want to restore my installation back to default by reinstalling all packages that are shipped by default by Ubuntu 16.10.
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For example LibreOffice, terminal, etc. ? – Liso Jan 10 '17 at 08:31
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Yes, everything to restore a virgin Ubuntu 16.10. :-) – orschiro Jan 10 '17 at 08:42
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In case that you want to restore really everything to a "virgin" Ubuntu 16.10 (as you said in the comment under your question), a fresh installation of the system might be the most easy way to go. Otherwise you would have to reinstall all the packages you want to have restored manually.
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Reinstalling ubuntu-desktop wont restore anything back to original installed version, but only refresh packages belonging to the ubuntu-desktop metapackage to the current newest version. – Soren A Jan 10 '17 at 12:35
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@SorenA : You are right ! :) Thank you for your hint ! :) I removed that part to improve the answer. ! :) – cl-netbox Jan 10 '17 at 13:02
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I like the hint about ubuntu-desktop. Will that reinstall all packages that might have been manually removed by the user? – orschiro Jan 10 '17 at 13:16
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@orschiro Please try it out ... open a terminal and execute the following command :
sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop... afterwards logout and back in or reboot the operating system. But I assume it will not work, I have tested it by removing the default games and they were not reinstalled after running this command ... so either reinstall the packages manually or reinstall the system - just choose the solution which takes less time. :) – cl-netbox Jan 10 '17 at 13:33 -
1@cl-netbox That is just a meta-package, this won't reinstall its dependencies. – goetz May 16 '19 at 18:13