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Is there a way I can reinstall Linux Mint without messing up my Windows Partition? (midwest.social)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Long story short I was messing around in the terminal and messed up my Linux Mint Installation and now when I boot into Linux I only get a CLI and don't even see the Linux mint logo. I tried to restore to a previous state using Timeshift but it did not work so I ended up taking a live usb and backing up all my important documents to an external drive. I want to just do a fresh installation but unfortunally for me the boot drive is also the same drive I use to boot into Windows (which I am still able to boot into from GRUB). Is there a way I can reinstall the OS without affecting my ability to boot into Windows?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I went to that directory and did a cat on the history.log and got this. I also tried looking for the meta package you were talking about and installed mint-meta-cinnamon.

Edit: Holy Shit. I just tried installing gnome and got my desktop back. Thank you so much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Given that the list for removed is longer than the one for subsequent install, you didn't install the correct package. It doesn't have to be called meta to be a meta package.

Essentially, you need to reinstall all the things you removed.

Also stop using -y with apt, it's a very bad habit to create.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Welcome to Linux my guy. You can fix basically anything here without ever having to reinstall

Also you should reinstall all those packages your removal of udev uninstalled, otherwise some things might not work as they should/not work at all