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gnome-panel package

Panels not appearing after installing Ubuntu

Asked by daunish

I installed Ubuntu on a very old computer, nothing went wrong other than i cant see any of the panels on the side of the screen. I can hover over and click on the various icons. but i cant see them at all. Any help would be useful.

Tech Specs of Comp
Processor 1.55GHz
Ram 2Gb
AMD Sempron processor

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

on a clean desktop with no app open press ctrl+al+t then into terminal type or copy and paste from here:

gconftool --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel

Should do it. It will reset them to default but will make them appear.

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daunish (daunishih) said : 		#2

it said
gnome-panel: no process found
that could be a problem, any way to instal or reinstall the software?

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

please using same method to open terminal and try:

sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop
sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-panel

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Hope this helps

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daunish (daunishih) said : 		#4

things went off without a hitch, it appeared to do a lot of stuff. But then when i typed in
sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop
i got
E: unable to locate package gnome-desktop
I appreciate the help so far, dont give up on me please!

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#5

Right there is not a gnome-desktop package sorry my fault...
Please try to reinstall this package:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-desktop-environment

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daunish (daunishih) said : 		#6

okay that worked fine, i didnt get any error messages i just dont know what to type next?

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