So like I was trying to install Davinci resolve (an editing program) and while doing so it basically said “removing” followed by that appears to be everything installed on my computer

So I nope right out of there and I notice a bunch of important things are missing ex: the terminal, file manager, etc

So I just decided Maybe if I reboot everything will be a ok

And now on this screen and it won’t even let me enter my logic

This was the latest update of Kubuntu And idk what I did wrong or how I got here

I’ve only been using Kubuntu for probably about 4 months ish

Edit: please help

Edit 2: I got it working by reinstalling Kubuntu as suggested, Thank you for the help :>

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
    23·
    5 months ago

    Possibly this contains the reason why it broke:

    https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian

    I don’t know how you went about installing davinci, but if you added a repo or ppa that is incompatible with the version you had, apt would try to resolve it by removing everything incompatible.

    Easiest way to fix it would be to reinstall Kubuntu and all the packages you had, while keeping your old home partition/folder. That way all your data, downloads and most of the configs will stay.

    The installer used to have a checkbox for that somewhere, at least back in the day when I used Kubuntu. Afaik it would automatically detect that a home already exists, even if it is not on a seperate partition.

    But just to be extra safe, I’d recommend just live booting some other OS and backing up your home to an external drive.

    • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.worldOP
      8·
      5 months ago

      It’s really late for me right now but I’ll talk so my brother tomorrow about borrowing an extra hard drive and attempting this then

      • EvolvedTurtle@lemmy.worldOP
        3·
        5 months ago

        I fixed it It’s finally working It took me longer then I’m willing to admit but There’s no reinstall button in the installer

        But to do it is to select manual partition and simply set the original partition as /

        Amazingly everything is exactly how I left it I expected to have to reconfigure my settings n such but it managed to retain my previous configurations

        • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          It’s pretty normal to keep the configurations. An inplace reinstall will just put the system files back that got removed, then a reboot will bring them up with the configuration files left from before the reinstall as long as they were put in the right place for user-configured files.

  • kolorafa@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    You can go to /var/log/apt/ and read the history.log as it will contain every single package that you did install/remove.

    Based on that you can just restore it to working state by manually undoing the changes (removing installed, installing removed)

  • mvirts@lemmy.world
    1·
    5 months ago

    If you can intercept boot ( press a key to get to the grub menu or whatever… I haven’t used Ubuntu in a while so maybe it’s not so simple anymore) you may be able to enter rescue / single-user mode and let apt complete the changes and then revert them.

    A clean reinstall may be easier depending on how much you’ve changed on the system. Easier isn’t always better, fix this and you’ll know how to do it again in the future.

  • youmaynotknow@lemmy.ml
    35·
    5 months ago

    Easiest fix:

    1.- Download Fedora

    2.- Install Fedora

    3.- Never look back

    4.- Be happy the rest of your life