apt-get autoremove removed gnome*

[Mark_in_Hollywood]

While removing libreoffice with:

sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core

so as to cleanly install OpenOffice instead of LO, the terminal suggested running autoremove:

mark@Lexington:~$ sudo apt-get remove --purge libreoffice-core
[sudo] password for mark: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libreoffice-l10n-en-gb libreoffice-l10n-zh-cn
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.

I ran the autoremove and it seemed to have changed much more than purging the 2 libreoffice packages, above. The full list is at:

http://pastebin.com/yFz96XD6

and what do I need to do to reinstall the gnome packages, before I reboot and no longer have a computer?

[ian-weisser]

Simply reinstalling the 'gnome' metapackage should pull in most of what you want to retain.

[Mark_in_Hollywood]

Thanks. Marking it as closed.