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I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and during my tries to free space I've removed several packages such as: openoffice, all editors, and some more packages such as players and printers drivers that I don't need and seem o.k to remove. However, after restart, the graphical interface doesn't load, I'm in the xserver, I have console but not gui. I was wondering if anyone can tell me which packages I should not remove or let me know of dependencies I need to consider when messing with packages?

Thanks!

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  • If your on a terminal/console, then X didn't load. – Bobby Jan 5 '11 at 12:08
  • when I try running startx, it says it's already running – Forge Jan 5 '11 at 12:15
  • We may be able to help you better if we know which packages are missing. Consider adding the output of sudo apt-get install -s ubuntu-desktop-minimal to your question. – oKtosiTe Jan 5 '11 at 21:38
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Generally you'd want to leave packages like xorg-* and gnome-session alone.

You could probably undo most of the damage by installing the ubuntu-desktop or ubuntu-desktop-minimal meta-package.
To simply get a listing of the missing packages without actually doing anything:

sudo apt-get install -s ubuntu-desktop
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