Questions tagged [reinstall]
Questions related to technical difficulties arising out of installation of an app on Ubuntu or Ubuntu itself , again after a fresh installation.
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Removed Python 3 and now Ubuntu Software Center, terminal and other applications don't work
I am a new Ubuntu user running Ubuntu 13.04.
I've been trying to install and use a DeDRM tool, but I've been having problems doing so. I was following some directions that said I needed a version of ...
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Ubuntu system is broken after accidentally uninstalling many packages
I accidentally removed all the packages starting with the name jpeg with:
sudo apt-get remove jpeg*
This screwed up a lot of things, removed Unity, Firefox, Flash player etc.
I somehow managed to ...
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Reinstalling Ubuntu with a dual boot
I was experiencing problems with Ubuntu Desktop like missing and broken system packages, missing Unity package and other problems. So I decided that the best solution (without touching Windows files) ...
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How to reinstall grub from a liveUSB if the / partition is encrypted and there is a separate /boot partition?
I found few threads that explain how to reinstall grub2 by the mean of chroot but none of them explain how to proceed if my / is encrypted and if there is a plain /boot partition. Thing is I installed ...
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How to downgrade back to 14.04 from 14.10 without live cd or usb drive?
My laptop does not have a cd drive and attempts to create a live USB disk have failed as the software crashes for some reason.
Is there any method to reinstalling 14.04 without either of these ...
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Reinstall to existing encrypted partitions
My disk layout is like this:
Encrypted partition for /
Encrypted partition for /home
Unencrypted partition for /boot
I set this up last time I did a complete reinstall (incl. wiped disk) of Ubuntu a ...
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How to revert to factory settings?
I want to reverse all my Ubuntu modifications and return the system to factory settings. I've installed useless stuff and now I want to uninstall everything I manually installed/factory reset.. Is ...
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How to reset Ubuntu installation [duplicate]
How do I reset my Ubuntu installation just like it's freshly installed (like factory reset), with my files being intact and without a reinstallation.
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How can I reinstall ubuntu focal 20.04 on encrypted system?
I'm a very long time ubuntu user (over a decade) but have not been here as I've had no issues with Ubuntu. With the arrival of 20.04 LTS I decided to encrypt my data (or system if needed). I'm looking ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu option is disabled
I have a Ubuntu and Windows on my machine and I have to reinstall Ubuntu without losing any of my data, /home folder, but reinstall ubuntu option is grayed out for some reason.
What should I do in ...
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Unable to start Apache2 with Error AH00526: Syntax error - Invalid command $
Recently I re-installed Apache because of some problem but since then this particular error is failing it to start.
There are related answers which I have tried like below but that too not effective:
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Ubuntu Software Center Purchase
About a year and a half again, I purchased this wonderful game "Machinarium" from Amanita Design at the Ubuntu Software Center. Now, after I got a new Laptop Computer, I wanted to re-install my ...
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Reinstall default truetype fonts (Ubuntu 16.04)
I accidentally (recklessly) rm -rf my /usr/share/fonts/truetype directory. All my truetype fonts are gone now. :/ Is there anyway to get them back? I'm on Ubuntu 16.04.
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Reinstalling Ubuntu without formatting /home
I have been using Ubuntu 14.04 for the last 3 years and now i think it's time to upgrade it to 18.04. I have a huge amount of data in home folder.
I created a separate /home partition during ...
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How to reinstall ubuntu 14.04 without cd drive or usb
I want to reinstall ubuntu 14.04, but the cd drive of my laptop isnt working and my laptop is old so it cant boot from usb sticks. What can i do?
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problem in sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
There are some problems with my Ubuntu 18.04 packages. I want to reinstall my Ubuntu via terminal, but when I type :
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
It shows :
Reading package ...
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How do I link pre-existing /home partition to account when reinstalling
I had an issue with my Ubuntu and i needed to reinstall. I'm trying to use the same /home partition so I don't loose my data. I know that i can not click the check box when reinstalling so the /home ...
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Reinstall NodeJS and npm
I installed NodeJS and npm in 14.04 in the hope of setting up Ionic Framework. But there seems to be something wrong and I was told to reinstall NodeJS and npm. Can someone please give me the commands ...
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Reinstall no CD OR USB
My system is Ubuntu only, how do I completely reinstall Ubuntu from terminal deleting everything and resulting in a fresh install without USB OR CD
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How to reinstall ubuntu 14.04
I recently installed ubuntu 14.04 , but when i installed it the laptop was not connected to internet.
But now the bluetooth is not working and laptop only gets connected to wifi for 20 minutes then ...
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Cannot reinstall python3 on ubuntu 14.04
I think that I accidentally broke Python3 and was unable to do anything. I read somewhere that the solution was to remove python3 and reinstall it, but I got yet another problem: I was able to remove ...
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Reinstall in new hdd restoring home folder. What happens to apps?
I want to reinstall ubuntu (or maybe a different distro) to a new hard drive. I have the home folder backed-up using dejavu. I have the following questions:
When I reinstall ubuntu, and restore the ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu 22.04 with fscrypt encrypted HOME directory?
Unfortunately, an encrypted home partition in Ubuntu 22.04 is not going to be unencrypted by default unless someone does some tricky preparations.
Even if one does, it will not be possible to use it ...
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Reinstall Ubuntu Server 14.04.2 LTS [duplicate]
I'm learning how to use Ubuntu Server, and after making my first install i realized that my partitions weren't correctly set up. It's way to complicated to fix now, and I regret not using my entire ...
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Recover files without a screen?
My screen is zoomed to max rendering it useless to navigate. I need the files on the drive and I wanted to re-install Ubuntu 18.04 to fix the zoom problem since nothing else has worked to correct the ...
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AVG Error (reinstall ubuntu)
I get some problems with Ubuntu... And I need to reinstall he..
I can't enter in Ubuntu, I only can enter in full terminal.
I try reinstall with the command:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-...
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