Ubuntu :: How To Reinstall Or Nuke Kubuntu
Mar 1, 2011
found a deal-breaker bug for me in KDE 4.6 (kontact no longer syncs with google-resource). So I'm trying to revert to kde 4.5. I did a fresh install of 10.10 on a USB drive, then upgraded to 4.6 (to see if the problem was with KDE or my original install got buggered). Then I tried to downgrade using ppa-purge. Now I can't boot into KDE at all. I get the KDM login, and can boot into gnome from there, but when I boot into KDE it starts to load and then kicks me back to the login screen. I tried purging every KDE package on the system, deleting my .kde directory and reinstalling, but same problem. No error messages that I can find in the logs. So I need to figure out how to totally remove KDE and reinstall (best). If I do this on my main drive, I'd like to keep my settings as well. Alternatively, what would be the best way to do a fresh 10.10 install? Should I just backup my /home directory, and start from scratch on the main drive (currently only 1 main+swap partition on the drive)?
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Feb 25, 2011
Is nothing but garbage on my dell inspiron 1501 laptop,It has to do with the drivers of the nouveau or the vesa driver.I am going to have to reinstall kubuntu and update kde to 4.5.5 if possible.
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Nov 7, 2010
I set up Kubuntu today because the keyboard input was messed up in GNOME, due to some file being corrupted. Does anybody know how to replace GNOME files in Kubuntu? I'm new to it, trying to find my way around.
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Dec 3, 2009
So I've finally given up on saving my kubuntu install that wont boot. I've searched, and looked, but couldn't find a thing.My delema now is to make sure that I:
a) get all of the user data safely packed up onto my external USB drive. I believe it's all in the home directory. I'm not sure about getting hidden files though...
b) get the new install to go smoothly, and not mess up grub or the parralell XP install on the same hard drive.
c) get the user data back on the computer and recreate the user structure. Permissions were messed up already, so setting those up again is not an issue.
So, I've been poking around, and this is how I think things should go:
a) tar cvpjf backup.tar.bz2 /home to get my home directory backed up. Not exactly sure how to get from here to my external hd, but I'm sure I can figure it out
b) just run a live cd of kubuntu, delete the old partitions, and reinstall over them?
c) unzip the tar into by /home directory.
That's all I've been able to find so far. How do I set up the users? Will they show up as soon as I untar? Will the resinstall play nice with my windows install? Will I get all the hidden files too? Is there anything I'm missing?
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Apr 29, 2010
Is there any way to nuke the stupid kde4.4 desktop folder and actually get a "normal" desktop back (icons are actually on the desktop instead of contained in the "desktop folder") ?
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Jan 28, 2010
Are there any tools that can completely nuke a HD "BLANK"?and I don't mean just wiping the contents.I tried nuking a HD using the Gparted Live-CD to remove the partitions.The only problem is it kept GRUB. Since then I have failed to install any distributions of Linux and I have tried several. They all hang at some point. I had a Debian Lenny v5.03 Net Install on it previously before the NUKE but the same disk I used them and the current one I re-downloaded both hangs.In other I need a completely blank HD. No Boot sector, no Master Boot Record (MBR),
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Dec 5, 2010
I just did a fresh install of Slackware 13.0 on a Toshiba laptop, and the ONLY thing I did on it after creating a user and switching to init 4 was to run upgrades. After doing so several applications failed to launch, so I rebooted the machine. I get the following error followed by a login prompt:
Code:
/bin/sh: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shaed object file: no such file or directory And nobody can log in, including root. I've got another laptop running 13.0 with all the latest upgrades and it runs fine.
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May 2, 2010
So I was messing around trying to uninstall Nibbles and reinstall since I have an issue starting that game and something happened and removed the submenu under Games called "Logic", which had another whole list of games.
Is it possible to reinstall the games package or reinstall the update?I'm thinking more of the lines of a system restore or something so back 2 days from today.
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Feb 4, 2011
how do I retrieve/reinstall Grub without having to reinstall Ubuntu?
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Apr 29, 2010
I recently installed opensuse 11.2 on my laptop which also had windows vista and windows 7, i created a new partition and the installation went smoothly, after i went to boot back into windows 7 i got a blue screen of death, strangely vista boots perfectly.I could just reinstall windows 7 but its a pain to reinstall all my programs and such
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Sep 15, 2010
I have two OS in my system. Windows& and Kubuntu. Both are in separate hard disks. I was using both. In between i have upgraded my system. now when i am giving priority to hard disk containing kubuntu, i can login to kubuntu, but cant get in to windows7. i have upgraded grub but not working. when i am giving priority to hard disk containig windows7 it enters and work properly. but not working in the previous.
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Mar 31, 2010
XP Pro SP3
Ubuntu 9.10
Kubuntu 9.10
Tri-booting. They were installed in the order I listed above. I ran into a few bugs with Kubuntu, so I no longer want to use it. I want to use GParted on a LiveCD to format Kubuntu and expand my Ubuntu home partition to sit on top of Kubuntu's space right now. If I nuke Kubuntu, will Grub still exist with my Ubuntu/XP entries to boot?
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Dec 6, 2010
i have ubuntu 10.04 64 bit installed and configured and working sweet. I have reinstalled windows 7 and now i can't boot ubuntu i've tried easybcd to add ubuntu to win boot loader which failed and tried to follow the instructions to reinstall grub through a live cd which i am in at the moment. i go to a terminal and type sudo grub and it brings up the grub prompt. i have mounted all discs and entered the command find /boot/grub/stage1 and it keeps spitting this back at me Error 15: File not found
my hd is a 80gb with partions like this
/dev/sda1 105mb ntfs system reserved
/dev/sda2 45gb ntfs win 7 home premium 64 bit
/dev/sda3 34gb ext4 ubuntu 10.04 64 bit
/dev/sda4 1.5gb linux swap
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Mar 7, 2011
I would like to apply KDE on my Kubuntu because the current one blew up. But each time I to sudo get-apt it seems to be fetching from the cloud. Is there a way I can make it to read from my local Kubuntu CD? I have both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Kubuntu Live CDs.
I believe the local disk read should be faster to translate than to bite the bytes across thousands of miles over the wire right?
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Jan 9, 2010
I have this on my computer butit will not boot up. Is it possible to re install this?
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Jun 2, 2011
Installed 10.10 onto a brand new HD. Using the computer to introduct myself to both Ubuntu and file server concepts. I also installed Samba and was communicating wirelessly with 2 Win 7 machines. THEN I upgraded to 11.04, could not get wirless internal card (B43) to work. Everthing is a mess my 11.04 computer is a doorstop. I tried to reinstall 10.10 from the orignal distribution disk I had created. I would like to take off 11.04 and go back to 10.10 with Samba and a functioning wireless card. I have backed up files, I would just like 11.04 off and 10.10 back. I do not wish to deal with the wireless B43 driver and 11.04 for now.
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Jul 1, 2011
For some reason after I accidentally put ubuntu (meerkat) into hibernation it won't load OS upon turning back on, shutting the computer down does the same thing. I get this error message: No Boot Device Available, Press Enter to Retry.For some reason my OS loads no problem if I am just restarting my system. This just started happening out of the blue.I've already reinstalled a couple of times off the live CD and also deleted and reinstalled GRUB2 with no luck. Now I'm thinking about trying to delete and reinstall my MBR, but I don't know the safest/best way to do this. Can I do this with gparted? Is this something that can only be done in terminal? I've seen commands like install - mbr ... should I use this route?
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Mar 1, 2010
I've been using Ubuntu for a couple of months as a wubi install. I've been able to do everything in Ubuntu and have not had to resort to Windows at all. I do have another Windows computer that is networked to this Ubuntu machine. It must remain Windows so I do have a Windows machine for a pinch. The question is I'm thinking of reinstalling Ubuntu on this machine by itself . No more Windows at all. What will I gain & what will I loose.
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Mar 23, 2010
I just uninstalled ubuntu using wubi In control panel/add and remove programs. and removed it.
Because i wanted to add more space, So i reinstalled Wubi, The wubi installer came up i filled it out adding the gbs i wanted name and new password and when i click on istall about two seconds in i get an error,
An error occured; Cannot install into C;ubuntu there is anotherfile or diretory with this name. Please remove it before continuing
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Apr 8, 2010
Anyway to reinstall firefox 3.5.8? It seems no matter what I install from the synaptics, 3.6 will be installed. They are all "dummy upgrade" packages I see. 3.6 is really really bad.
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Apr 23, 2010
I have 7 And Karmic and I recently a 1080p monitor, new graphics card and 8 gbs of ram, I reinstalled 7 (using 64-bits per pixel instead) and I tried reinstalling the grub menu in the live usb and it doesn't work like it did back in earlyer versions of ubuntu
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May 5, 2010
I was trying to upgrade FGLRX, but the old one wouln't uninstall. I think I need to reintall Lucid. Since I have seperate partitions for:: /, /urs, /boot, /boot & swap. Can I ujust reinstall root? I'm downloading 'ubuntu-10.04-desktop-amd64.iso' via torrent now
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Jun 18, 2010
I'm a hardcore ubuntu user and have ubuntu 10.04 on my dell Inspiron 1525. I dual booted it with fedora 13 recently and fedora grub has wiped out ubuntu grub2. I want to re-install grub2.
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Jul 15, 2010
I reistalled windows XP in a Ubuntu 10.04 /windows dual booting system .. After installation the grub is lost .. I don't know how to restore grub ..
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Aug 11, 2010
I'm trying to get Samba running, but I accidentally deleted smb.conf. I tried reinstalling Samba through apt-get, but it does not create another smb.conf (which it did when I first installed it). I'm pretty new to ubuntu, and I'm just wondering if anybody knows how to get a completely clean install.
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Aug 18, 2010
I messed up my Ubuntu really bad and I need to reinstall it.
I installed another Ubuntu from the disk, but it never appeared on the grub loader so I assume it failed.
Is there anyway to remove or to reinstall Ubuntu?
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Aug 19, 2010
I installed ubuntu netbook remix on a very old laptop. in the end of installation, the cd drive just broke and not usable again.the ubuntu is installed but extremely slow, I want to try to install something else like wattos or puppy.the problem is - no cd drive, no boot from usb support in bios. only floppy.I tried to go to grub and boot from the usb, but it doesn't find the usb drive..(is it possible to make a bootable floppy that will allow me to boot from usb drive?)
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Aug 31, 2010
I accidently deleted the Me Menu in 10.04 when I installed global menu.
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Sep 27, 2010
I have no idea how to do that >_> I have ubuntu (and Windows 7) dual booting from a partition.
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Nov 20, 2010
Is there any way to recover lost files after fresh install? I forgot to copy some files and i need to recover them. I've reinstalled Ubuntu 10.10 aaaaand... I need to recover them at all costs even if it involves losing all my current files..
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