I accidentally removed dnsmasq-base following a tutorial without looking at the warnings in the comments. So what I want to know is, is there a way of getting my network manager back without losing any of my data?
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Can you connect to the Internet via a wired interface (connecting the Ethernet cable)? Read this NetworkConfiguration, specially the manual configuration of Ethernet, I think might help.– edwinJul 1, 2013 at 19:49
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Hi. Are you able to connect to the internet by plugging into a wired connection? You may need to do some terminal work. Do you still have dhclient?– namingFailedJul 1, 2013 at 19:49
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What tutorial were you following and what command did you run ?– PantherJul 1, 2013 at 19:51
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askubuntu.com/questions/191226/… That is the question that I followed without looking at comments.– RyanJul 2, 2013 at 17:20
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ethernet cable doesn't work– RyanJul 2, 2013 at 17:26
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You can use a chroot from a live cd to install a package from a non-bootable/no network system. Follow this guide up to step six (do step six, but NOT 7). I know the guide is for rearing grub but the chroot process is what we are interested in.
Once you have done that, you should be able to just do a sudo apt-get install dnsmasq
and reboot.
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In The tutorial on step 5, for all the commands it just comes up telling me the usage of the mount command. I ignored this unsure whether it had executed the command. Then when i run the final command on this answer it sayss it is already installed but asks if i want to continue, i put yes and it gives me an error. Please help. Thanks Again, Ryan– RyanJul 2, 2013 at 18:08
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Okay, i got it fixed. I did this by adding in the command "sudo apt-get install network-manager" After mounting everything. Thanks Again, Ryan– RyanJul 9, 2013 at 18:36
You can download the removed packages from:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=dnsmasq-base
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=network-manager
download also: network-manager-gnome (I cannot post 3 links)
Choose the right package according to your distro: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:Precise Pangolin Ubuntu 12.10: Quantal Quetzal Ubuntu 13.04: Raring Ringtail
Copy those files to an USB stick. Start your Linux OS and copy the files of the USB stick to a folder.
Open terminal an go to the folder.
Then install using:
sudo dpkg -i <package name>
After that, restart network manager:
sudo service network-manager restart
I hope that helps!
