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 😅

  • f00f/erisEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    Whenever you install or remove software, be sure to read through what’s being removed. You don’t want to accidentally uninstall something important. This is very unlikely to happen with official Debian packages, but you should be especially careful when installing packages outside of Debian’s repo, as they may not be fully compatible with your version of Debian.

    In any case, I’d log in to a tty (ctrl-alt-any function key) and install whichever desktop environment you had before using apt.

    • LunchOP
      4•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.

        • LunchOP
          1•1 year ago

          For when I downloaded Debian? I just went to their homepage and got the latest bookworm.

            • LunchOP
              1•1 year ago

              ISO and then format over to usb with Etcher 👍

              • TOR-anon1
                1•1 year ago

                What Desktop Enviroment did you install?

                Try: sudo apt install tasksel && sudo tasksel

                • LunchOP
                  1•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.

      • @[email protected]
        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

    • LunchOP
      0•1 year ago

      I’m assuming I need to reconfigure my desk opt environment too?