Noob. Please help! No GUI in 9.10 after installing 10.04

[mikeashelby]

Hi Guys,

I made the mistake of eagerly adopting 10.04 as soon as it came out; and while 10.04 itself is running really well (I'm writing to you from it now), my 9.10 install (which, before you ask, I didn't install over!) has gone wrong!

I'm a bit of a Ubuntu noob, so I don't know exactly what's gone wrong. All I really know for sure is that it comes up with an error while trying to run up giving me the option (amongst others) to run in 'low graphics mode' - but unfortunately this just brings me to a console, and the other options (I think they're to use a previous working version, or reconfigure) don't seem to work at all.

Is there a way from the command line to just reinstall all the gui bits? Is that going to mess up my install even further?

As it stands, I'm stuck at just copying my stuff off my 9.10 partition into 10.04 (which granted, isn't the end of the world).

Just wondered if anyone could help?

Cheers,

Mike

[xDarkicex]

Yeah you can reinstall the DE through the terminal.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide#Part_IV:_Installing_and_configu ring_a_Desktop_Environment here is a Guide on how to add the desktop environment to arch linux, since I could find no guides for ubuntu seeing as it should come with one.

Might also just try a reinstall

[nitstorm]

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can u try


sudo apt-get install ubuntu-dektop
if in case gnome is deleted then it should install the gnome DE back on your system i guess..

here is a link that you can look into http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=186298