Help! I killed my GUI!

[Mike White]

How do I get to the command line to run apt-get?

Michael White
Bradshaw Christian School
Technology Coordinator
mwhite at bradshawchristian.com
P. (916) 204-8054


> -----Original Message-----
> From: edubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:edubuntu-users-
> bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Scott Balneaves
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:13 PM
> To: edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Help! I killed my GUI!
>
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 03:27:51PM -0700, Mike White wrote:
> > Edubuntu 7.10: I removed some packages through synaptic package manager
> and rebooted a few of the LTSP clients. Now I can boot them up to a login
> screen, but once I login the screen is black with only a mouse cursor.
> >
> > Is there a way to get to the command line interface to back-track and
> restore some of the removed packages?
>
> You'll probably want to try apt-get install edubuntu-desktop.
>
> What packages did you remove?
>
> Cheers,
> Scott
>
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