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gekepdp
Asked: 2020-06-09 01:45:34 +0800 CST

I uninstalled xorg and can't use Ubuntu Desktop without wayland

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I stupidly ran the command sudo apt remove k* to uninstall kde. This however also uninstalled parts of xorg/x server/x11. I don't know what it uninstalled, as I know nothing about linux. I have tried running multiple commands like sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop and sudo apt install xorg. It also gives a message about packages which should be removed, however these are nvidia ones and I'm worried to do so. I can only use Wayland, which is incovenient.n

xorg 18.04

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    I couldn't find what I did, but this helped me at a later date, when I did something similar.

    I followed the instructions from https://serverfault.com/a/703266, but I've posted them here:

    1. I ran awk '!/^Start|^Commandl|^End|^Upgrade:|^Error:/ { gsub( /\([^()]*\)/ ,"" );gsub(/ ,/," ");sub(/^Install:/,""); print}' /var/log/apt/history.log. This command gets the latest remove, then removes any nonsense.
    2. Run apt install [The output] of the above command.
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