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I am a newbie. I have had lubuntu for about 6 months with no problems. Recently tried to check out the gnu icecat browser. I added a repo from Trisquel to download the browser...but there appears to have some kind of a problem with Lubuntu now. It would be great if someone could give me step by step instructions for a newbie on how to get my normal lubuntu back again. The "base-files" may be causing some kind of a problem. The "base-files" are being updated from the Trisquel repo.

Adam
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  • Here is the full apt-cache policy:
    Installed: 1.8.16-0ubuntu3.2 Candidate: 1.8.16-0ubuntu3.2 Version table: *** 1.8.16-0ubuntu3.2 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.8.16-0ubuntu3 500 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety/main amd64 Packages 1.8.3p1-1ubuntu3.7 500 500 http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel toutatis-updates/main amd64 Packages     – Adam Aug 07 '17 at 04:56
  • if you updated base files from trisquel then you now have triquel not ubuntu. the easiest fix is to reinstall ubuntu. – ravery Aug 07 '17 at 05:06

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I had a similar problem, and probably due to the same mistake (adding a PPA to install IceCat). I've solved it by following answer https://askubuntu.com/a/733383/767716 which instructs you to reinstall base_files from https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/base-files

You should look in section Built files, Files resulting from this build, something starting with base-files_ and ending in .deb

After downloading it, again following the instructions, you should run:

sudo dpkg -i /your/path/to/base-files_*.deb

And make a test run with:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall base-files

After that, I needed to change some files, for example, remove and re-add items under /etc/sources-list.d as some of them were pointing to the trisquel/toutatis version.

iggar
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