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How can i roll back/recover my system/installation?

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I have made too many unwanted changes in Ubuntu, i regret some progs I installed and the system is a mess. In Win XP I use to run "system recovery" and sett it back some days before the changes I have made. Is there something similar here in ubuntu? Thanks in advance :-)

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#1

No. If you want to "wash" your Ubuntu, remove all applications you have installed and purge the remaining with this commands:
sudo apt-get autoremove # Delete unused packages
sudo dpkg --purge `COLUMNS=300 dpkg -l "*" | egrep "^rc" | cut -d\ -f3` # Delete unused configuration

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Molly (mollious) said : 		#2

Doesnt help. I get the folowing...
"0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded."
Maybe if I unistall it and reinstall? I have installed Wubi through windows, Win running on an other disk.

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#3

Before running autoremove you have to remove applications. Also it works only if applications you have removed had dependencies!
Uninstall, reinstall, windows... what are you talking about??

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Molly (mollious) said : 		#4

I am talking about that I am new in Ubuntu and I installed it through Win XP using a program called Wubi, if you know it. I made a mess i Ubuntu intalling a lot of progs and making changes, don't remember exactly what I installed and what I didnt. If I would there wouldn't be a problem to fix it.
I am just trying to avoid unistllation of Ubuntu to install it again - clean. :-)

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Andrea Corbellini (andrea.corbellini) said : 		#5

To uninstall Wubi: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiGuide#head-7cd5a1eda23f1e9960c28ef3a2f4e8645c5ea87d

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Molly (mollious) said : 		#6

thanks