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I even need to do this on the RC2 iso image? I will try.
Edit: this solved it, MX Linux could be installed.

New problem occurred:
In the new installed MX Linux I can't record sound with Audacity 3.3.3 (installed via MX repos) played by Firefox. This was no issue in the past. No matter what audio ...

Installation failed on a system where Fedora 38 is installed on btrfs partitions. I wanted to install mx-linux on sda4. 1st I tried to install on a btrf partition. This failed. Than I wanted to use ext4 but this also failed.
Here are 2 screenshots of this. Hope this helps to solve it.

Screenshot ...

Hi,
the systemctrl command does not work because you've booted (what is default) with SysVInit (see your system info, Info section at the end).
systemcrtl needs systemd init system. During the boot process, choose Advanced from the menu and choose the systemd entry. Than your commands should work ...

Hi Solon, thanks for pointing this out, very good thread. I would myself not describe as an power user, but I keep learning.
I'm also happy to have switched from Win10 to MX Linux. I like it a lot.

what i have sometimes done in the past is try aptitude instead of apt (or apt-get) as aptitude sometimes suggests workarounds for broken dependencies issues - but depending on how many such issues or conflicts you have this may get real tedious and re-installing without touching /home end up being ...

Not all of them where removed. I canceled it when I saw the icons vanish :eek: There where some messages about
First I had fear that it would not reboot at all. But luckily it did. I immediately installed some packages back after this.

The term.log part term.log.7z is much more frightening:
e.g ...

Ok, I managed to bring at least the icons back and some other components from my backintime backup :-)

I also followed the hints how to get the installed packages. At the end this are not too much so I will follow baldyeti 's hint to reinstall from command line.
At least I can work again with the ...

Though this may not be the answer exactly to what you asked: Your snapshot iso would be the simplest. (I just wanted to remind all users the importance of "MX Snapshot" (and occasionally taking snapshots) by the way.)

Since it's about panel and desktop: Just create a new user with "MX User ...

Before re-installing you may give a look at /var/log/apt/history.log and see if you find the list of packages that were uninstalled so you can simply re-install them (probably your icon theme amongst them...)


I already took a look at the log file and tried to reinstall. But some packages failed ...

I made an obvious stupid thing when I wanted to resolve a unresolved error I got when installing wine. I complained about some libraries that could not be installed, but where already on my system. So I wanted to uninstall and reinstall them. In particular I issued a

apt remove libasound2-plugins ...