I just installed a cisco vpn. And after installing some required libraries I got the option to get rid of “unused” libraries. So I did ‘sudo apt autoremove’ as suggested. After I rebooted I no longer have a either x11 or wayland in the drop down menu. I can no longer login via the GUI.

Running latest Debian.

Where did I go wrong? Any immediate help appreciated 🙏

Edit: The Cisco VPN required me to download libkit2gtk-4.0-dev if that has anything to do with it?

Edit2: Thanks for all the tips and help. Won’t happen again 😅

  • Mr. Forager@lemmy.worldOP
    51·
    1 year ago

    But rather crazy that one “recommend” command from debian would do this? I’m still q bit new to the Desktop world of Linux.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
      5·
      1 year ago

      Which Debian guide did you follow? I’m curious what guide is causing conflicts like these.

      You can reinstall Gnome with sudo apt install gnome-desktop. If you want a better overview of what’s going on, you may want to install aptitude and sudo aptitude install the conflicting packages.

      Of course, if you prefer another desktop environment (KDE, LXDE, etc.), you should install that instead of Gnome.

              • Mr. Forager@lemmy.worldOP
                21·
                1 year ago

                I’m a KDE kinda guy. Also for some reason not allowed to connect to WiFi anymore(via Terminal) … Been troubleshooting this for too long now. Just gonna get OpenSuse on this machine instead me thinks.

                • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  A reinstall may be a good idea, it sounds like you also removed a bunch of other components.

                  You may want to consider using something like timeshift in the future. That way you can roll back your OS to a previous version right from the Grub menu when you accidentally change your system in some catastrophic way. It’s a bit like System Restore in Windows, though Linux doesn’t have something as automated and comprehensive yet.

                  • Mr. Forager@lemmy.worldOP
                    1·
                    1 year ago

                    Yeah that’s something I’ll setup this time! ✨

                    Is Timeshift equally relevant on OpenSuse Tumbleweed? Or is it Snapper I should use instead?

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      linux distros assume that the your know what they are doing, so it show what it gonna do, and do it if the user say yes, even if it removing the entire system, because some users do that(removing and installing other system) so always be careful, especially with sudo commands, that why they ask for password, terminal is a powerfull tool, that why you can’t runs these commands from GUI