X broke

[Petri Pennanen]

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 18:41 -0500, Romeyn Prescott wrote:
> Well, I've been messing around...
> 
> I eventually used apt-get to remove libxmuu1.  That carved out about 
> 90 megs of "stuff".  I then reinstalled it, but that didn't do much. 
> I then installed gdm, but it wouldn't load all the way.  (But it got 
> farther than before I started all of this...)
> 
> So I just typed 'apt-get install gnome'...and I fear that was a 
> mistake, as it's installing all sorts of CRAP like abiword.
> 
> Is there something I can type that will revert packages back to the 
> way they were post-install without actually re-installing?

To make sure you have the packages that are included in the default
install simply run:
	sudo apt-get install ubuntu-base ubuntu-desktop

I'm not aware of any automatic way to remove all the extra packages.

- Petri