How to reinstall a component I accidentally deleted [Solved]

[carturo222]

If you can then boot to a terminal screen and have a Net connection there

It worked like magic! From the terminal I was able to reinstall the missing parts. Thank you very much.

[Madison]

@carturo222

For educational reasons, could you share the KDE package name which you reinstalled in order to fix the system.

[carturo222]

@carturo222

For educational reasons, could you share the KDE package name which you reinstalled in order to fix the system.

It wasn't just one package. apt history gave me a dozen pages of text with hundreds of uninstalled components. I painstakingly reinstalled them one by one.

[Stevo]

There's a metapackage that could have got the desktop back with one install, "kde-plasma-desktop". Extra goodies not included, so you'd still have to manually do those. There's a loaded luxury model, "kde-plasma-desktop-full", too.

[asqwerth]

It wasn't just one package. apt history gave me a dozen pages of text with hundreds of uninstalled components. I painstakingly reinstalled them one by one.

You have not posted your Quick System Info. Perhaps you should do so, since you mentioned in your first post that you tried not just removing some packages, but also installing some others.

While it could be that the uninstallation of so many packages could simply be due to you wrongly removing fundamental packages needed for Plasma, it can also happen when you enable the wrong repos (eg Debian Testing or Unstable) and install stuff from there.

Giving the helpers more information will help them give you better advice.