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gnome-terminal package

I killed it

Asked by mksnyder

I have Ubuntu 6.10 running dual boot with WinXP. It has been working GREAT! And I love being able to use and learn Linux and finding all of the apps I need to convert from Windows...

However, I was removing some 'unneeded' apps using the Synaptic Package Manager and I must have gone a little crazy, because now several of my menu choices all give me the same basic error:

Could Not Launch Menu Item
Failed to execute child process "gnome-terminal"
(No such file or directory)

So, I can't open Synaptic Package Manager OR Terminal to do anything. Email(Evolution) works, Open Office works, Firefox works, and I hate to think about having to reinstall Ubuntu again, and go through all of the 139 updates to get back to this point, so I'm hoping there is a quick and painless solutions.

Thanks,

Marlin

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Leandro Gómez (leogg) said : 		#1

Hi Marlin!

The error message is because the apps doesn't exist. Synaptic removed them but you have to edit your menu to manually remove the menu entries of the removed apps.

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mksnyder (marlin-ny) said : 		#2

Thank you, however, what I want to know is, how do I get everything back? Right now, I can't access Terminal, or the Synaptic Package Manager. Is there a way to get to the Terminal so that I can reload whatever it is that will allow access to everything?

Thanks again.

Marlin

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Banks (banks) said : 		#3

1,goto Terminal with ctrl+alt+F1
2,change to root user:$sudo su
3,apt-get update
4,apt-get dist-upgrade

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Banks (banks) said : 		#4

5, apt-get install gnome-terminal

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