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I installed amd proprietary driver and when reboot, xserver wont come up. After that I purged xserver and proprietary driver and try to install xserver again. But it wont work. apt-get install wont work. It says has no installation candidate or 

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  • Can you try sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop? If that fails, please add the content of your /etc/apt/sources.list file.
    – Braiam
    Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 0:50
  • sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop might not be the best thing to do. It won't improve the situation.
    – Richard
    Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 0:52
  • Problem is that sudo apt-get install whatever wont work. Like computer isnt on internet.
    – Steva
    Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 1:00
  • Are you unable to get to a desktop?
    – Richard
    Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 1:56

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AMD graphices drives? You must remove Ubuntu system drives first:

sudo apt-get remove fglrx* 
sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel

Then go to the AMD website, and download your drivers.

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