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jones0610
Asked: 2024-08-31 09:36:37 +0800 CST

Major software missing after 24.04.1 LTS upgrade

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I just upgraded my 22.04 LTS desktop to 24.04.1 LTS. The upgrade seemed to go fine. On the final reboot the desktop came up in console mode. The GUI never started. I saw no interesting errors in the syslog. To try to fix this I did a

sudo apt install gnome-shell

This caused the GUI to start on reboot but I totally hate this interface! The Wayland choice is no longer there. Just Ubuntu and Ubunti Xorg.

I don't know if this matters but the video is a RV730XT Radeon HD4670 PCI card

On further cursory inspection it appears that a LOT of apps are no longer there. Software & Updater and the legacy terminal shell to name just two. The printer queues all disappeared. Brasero won't run complaining about missing libraries. There is a LOT of software that was removed and not replaced!

I probably should have waited to do this upgrade but the release is now 24.04.1 indicating that it is a tested, shaken down, stable release. I received the popup asking if I wanted to upgrade to the latest LTS and I clicked upgrade.

This upgrade issued no errors yet has turned out to be a massive fail. The desktop is running but is completely unusable. I could really use some help here!

As observed in the comments, it seems that the update was massively incomplete. Uh, yeah...

So how do I fix this without having to do a clean install? I did try to repeat the upgrade but it responded that everything is up-to-date. What's needed, I think, is a method of re-installing this upgrade where all of the missing software will be installed. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can install all preinstalled Ubuntu packages with the commands

    sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop^

    GNOME Shell is the desktop environment.

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