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 😅
For when I downloaded Debian? I just went to their homepage and got the latest bookworm.
Live disk? or CD iso?
ISO and then format over to usb with Etcher 👍
What Desktop Enviroment did you install?
Try: sudo apt install tasksel && sudo tasksel
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.
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.
Yeah that’s something I’ll setup this time! ✨
Is Timeshift equally relevant on OpenSuse Tumbleweed? Or is it Snapper I should use instead?
I’ve never tried OpenSuse, but there seems to be a package for it.
The Snapper website seems to indicate that ext4 support is deprecated so if you’re going to use ext4 I’d pick Timeshift. I don’t know enough about Snapper to make a confident suggestion for you, though.
Cool, thanks 😊