Common utilities missing by default after an upgrade to 10.04 (lucid)

[newbee75]

Hi all,

I had my desktop at an old debian release. After following the "upgrade" prompts from the update manager, I upgraded the system to ubuntu 10.04 (lucid). However, after the gnome desktop started following the upgrade, i noticed that a number of utilities like the "terminal" "vim" " gedit" etc were missing (they existed prior to upgrade)by default. I am having to manually install them using 'apt-get install' every time I try and use a utility and find it missing. Does anyone know :

1)why these basic utilities aren't installed by default ?

2) Is there a way I can select a "package" of these basic utilities and install them in one go as opposed to installing each of them as and when I discover what is missing ?

Thank s a lot for your time and help!

[wojox]

Try this:


sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop

No that isn't common to have all those applications missing.

[newbee75]

Thanks Wojox! I will give that a try..