Help! I killed my GUI!

[Mike White]

Excellent. Thank you. Now I receive "E: Broken Packages" when I run sudo apt-get install edubuntu-desktop

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


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jordan Erickson [mailto:jerickson at logicalnetworking.net]
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 4:37 PM
> To: Mike White
> Cc: 'Scott Balneaves'; 'edubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com'
> Subject: Re: Help! I killed my GUI!
>
> Mike,
>
> On the server - Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
>
> Or, CTRL+ALT+F1. Make sure you're running from the LTSP server though,
> as CTRL+ALT+F1 from a thin-client will only give you the tty for the
> chroot - which isn't where we want to re-install edubuntu-desktop.
>
> Cheers,
> Jordan
>
>
> Mike White wrote:
> > 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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> >> Systems Department |  but no causes I am prepared to kill for."
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