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I am using Ubuntu 16.04.

I had Google Earth installed on the machine. I then installed Google Earth Pro-which never prompted me for a password and displayed a bunch of odd panels in weird places. Assuming a conflict of software I uninstalled Google Earth using the instructions here: Google Earth uninstall.

Oddly, the gnome-terminal package was removed from the computer, and the WiFi stopped working (although I can tether through my Android phone). What happened? Where is gnome-terminal, and why did my WiFi stop working?

Zanna
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  • What happened? You tell us... What were the packages removed by autoremove? You probably had severe issues with software sources before and that was the consequence. –  Sep 06 '17 at 15:37
  • Do you use to call gnome-terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T? Type ctrl-alt-F1, log on it, and type which gnome-terminal. It will tell you if and where it is. – Redbob Sep 06 '17 at 15:39
  • Please see Autoremove command removed too many packages and review your bash history - you probably uninstalled something which many other packages depend on – Zanna Sep 06 '17 at 15:42
  • I had gnome-terminal pinned to the desktop. After it disappeared from there it was no longer openable using Ctrl-Alt-T, nor was it visible in the Dash or shown on the Ubuntu software center as an installed app. Which Gnome terminal? Terminal(gnome-terminal). – GBG Sep 06 '17 at 15:42
  • @Zanna I confirmed from the bash history that I only typed in sudo apt-get purge google-earth-stable and sudo apt-get autoremove. – GBG Sep 06 '17 at 15:50
  • hmmm, but before this session, did you run any remove commands without running autoremove? You can also take a look at /var/log/apt/history.log to see what was removed – Zanna Sep 06 '17 at 15:53
  • @Zanna, No. In fact, I was working in Google Earth right before this all happened, I had a WiFi connection-I was checking mail...no worries. At this point I have the Terminal installed I just want to get my WiFi working again. – GBG Sep 06 '17 at 15:58
  • I think you misunderstood me - I mean, you ran some install command, and that marked various packages as un-needed, then when you ran autoremove, those packages were removed... Please check the log... try grep gnome-terminal /var/log/apt/history.log since it was probably on the same line – Zanna Sep 06 '17 at 16:01
  • There is a lot I do not understand about Linux. When I run grep gnome-terminal /var/log/apt/history.log the terminal returns Remove:gnome-terminal:amd64 (3.18.3-1ubuntu1) and then Install:gnome-terminal:amd64 (3.18.3-1ubuntu1) – GBG Sep 06 '17 at 16:06
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – Zanna Sep 06 '17 at 16:19

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