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q.uijote
Asked: 2024-10-31 03:11:51 +0800 CST

Removed libgl1-mesa-dri by accident

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Python reported a problem with MESA-Loader so I and ran the following commands on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (to be honest, I did not really know what I was doing):

dpkg -l | grep mesa
sudo apt remove --purge libgl1-mesa-dri
sudo apt install libglu1-mesa
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri
sudo apt install mesa-utils

Now, I am only seing the command line and no graphical interface on the machine.

All I want is getting back the graphical interface (reverting above commands)

What I tried:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install libgl1-mesa-dri
sudo apt install mesa-utils
sudo reboot

Which did not help. When I do dpkg -l | grep mesa I get:

ii libegl-mesa0:amd64                24.0.9.-0ubuntu0.2    amd64  ...
ii libgl1-mesa-dri:amd64             24.0.9.-0ubuntu0.2    amd64  ...
ii libglapi-mesa:amd64               24.0.9.-0ubuntu0.2    amd64  ...
ii libglu1-mesa:amd64                9.0.2-1.1build1       amd64  ...
ii libglx-mesa0:amd64                24.0.9.-0ubuntu0.2    amd64  ...
ii mesa-utils                        9.0.0-2               amd64  ...
ii mesa-utils-bin:amd64              9.0.0-2               amd64  ...
ii mesa-va-drivers:amd64             24.0.9.-0ubuntu0.2    amd64  ...
ii mesa-vdpau-drivers:amd64          24.0.9.-0ubuntu0.2    amd64  ...
ii mesa-vulkan-drivers:amd64         24.0.9.-0ubuntu0.2    amd64  ...
drivers

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    @kyodake's comment was the solution. Basically,

    exec sudo -i
dpkg --configure -a
apt -f install
apt -m install
apt dist-upgrade
apt install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
apt autoremove
apt clean
exit
sudo reboot

    solved my problem! :)

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