X broke

Oliver Grawert hostmaster at grawert.net
Fri Dec 3 23:52:38 UTC 2004


hi,
Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 18:41 -0500 schrieb Romeyn Prescott:
> Well, I've been messing around...
> 
> I eventually used apt-get to remove libxmuu1.  That carved out about 
> 90 megs of "stuff".  I then reinstalled it, but that didn't do much. 
> I then installed gdm, but it wouldn't load all the way.  (But it got 
> farther than before I started all of this...)
> 
> So I just typed 'apt-get install gnome'...and I fear that was a 
> mistake, as it's installing all sorts of CRAP like abiword.
> 
> Is there something I can type that will revert packages back to the 
> way they were post-install without actually re-installing?
> 
> ...ROMeyn
try this one:

sudo apt-get remove xorg-common

then:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

:)

ciao
	oli

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