[SOLVED] Lost GDM and Ubuntu-Desktop, boots into terminal

[MrSootentai]

I accidentally uninstalled gdm and ubuntu-desktop and now my ubuntu only boot into the terminal client.
How can I fix this? Whenever i type in 'apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' it just fails to get any of the packages.
What should I do??

[clegends]

How was this solved? Please don't mark posts as solved until you tell us what you did. Thanks

[MrSootentai]

I don't remember what I did, but most likely just reinstalled because I never received an answer. I just marked as solved because it was already buried so far under.

[merlinus]

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop


would have done it.

[MrSootentai]

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop


would have done it.

That hadn't worked. Everytime I did with or without sudo it would say it failed to find the package.

[merlinus]

Interesting.... Did you try



sudo apt-get update
first? That should have updated the repos, which may be why you got the error.

And



sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install ubuntu-desktop
should work as well.

[MrSootentai]

Mhm, I tried all of that. I even got a clean sources list from a fresh install and it didn't work either. It kept giving the failed to find package for everything. Not just the ubuntu-desktop.
Hence the reason I had reinstalled everything.