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 😅

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    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.

    • 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.