Possible to install packages to a separate Linux installation?
So I was trying to get a CentOS designed application to work on Ubuntu, and played around with some graphics drivers. Well, in my spree of copy and pasting SE suggestions into my terminal, I broke something bad. I no longer have any GUI, and am stuck in tty. Trying to run startx tells me that /usr/bin/X doesn't exist. Awesome. I think I could fix it with
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
but I can't do this because I have no internet connection from tty, and cannot find any working solution to get wifi connected using wpa_supplicant, or anything else. As far as I understand, recovery mode will be useless too, without an internet connection.
So, instead I installed an Ubuntu 16.04 image onto a USB stick, and booted from there (which is what I'm typing this post from). Here, I have access to all my files, great, and have GUI and internet connection working fine.
Now, is there a way for me to repair my original Ubuntu while having booted from the USB? I don't really know how apt-get works, but I would imagine there should be some way to download the ubuntu-desktop files while I have internet connection, and then reboot into my original Ubuntu's tty, and do the install. No? Suggestions?
Edit:
Okay, I can
sudo apt-get install --download-only ubuntu-desktop --reinstall
to get the deb package file onto the live-usb. Now figuring out how to move it to my machine/access it from my other installation...
14.04 16.04 live-usb bios
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
|
show 1 more comment
So I was trying to get a CentOS designed application to work on Ubuntu, and played around with some graphics drivers. Well, in my spree of copy and pasting SE suggestions into my terminal, I broke something bad. I no longer have any GUI, and am stuck in tty. Trying to run startx tells me that /usr/bin/X doesn't exist. Awesome. I think I could fix it with
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
but I can't do this because I have no internet connection from tty, and cannot find any working solution to get wifi connected using wpa_supplicant, or anything else. As far as I understand, recovery mode will be useless too, without an internet connection.
So, instead I installed an Ubuntu 16.04 image onto a USB stick, and booted from there (which is what I'm typing this post from). Here, I have access to all my files, great, and have GUI and internet connection working fine.
Now, is there a way for me to repair my original Ubuntu while having booted from the USB? I don't really know how apt-get works, but I would imagine there should be some way to download the ubuntu-desktop files while I have internet connection, and then reboot into my original Ubuntu's tty, and do the install. No? Suggestions?
Edit:
Okay, I can
sudo apt-get install --download-only ubuntu-desktop --reinstall
to get the deb package file onto the live-usb. Now figuring out how to move it to my machine/access it from my other installation...
14.04 16.04 live-usb bios
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
In tty; were you in runlevel 1 (no networking, no gui) & didn't realize it? I realize from your description you believe you've destroyed gui, but I'm wondering if you bypassed issues by putting yourself in single-user mode which caused the no networking
– guiverc
Mar 18 at 22:39
I believe you can mount your main hdd from live system, and put the file there.
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 0:39
@Emmet Hmm, one would think... I can't solve permissions issues
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
@guiverc sorry, I'm not sure what your comment means
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
In live system, you don't need password to invoke root access. Simplysudo suwill grant you a root access
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 5:00
|
show 1 more comment
So I was trying to get a CentOS designed application to work on Ubuntu, and played around with some graphics drivers. Well, in my spree of copy and pasting SE suggestions into my terminal, I broke something bad. I no longer have any GUI, and am stuck in tty. Trying to run startx tells me that /usr/bin/X doesn't exist. Awesome. I think I could fix it with
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
but I can't do this because I have no internet connection from tty, and cannot find any working solution to get wifi connected using wpa_supplicant, or anything else. As far as I understand, recovery mode will be useless too, without an internet connection.
So, instead I installed an Ubuntu 16.04 image onto a USB stick, and booted from there (which is what I'm typing this post from). Here, I have access to all my files, great, and have GUI and internet connection working fine.
Now, is there a way for me to repair my original Ubuntu while having booted from the USB? I don't really know how apt-get works, but I would imagine there should be some way to download the ubuntu-desktop files while I have internet connection, and then reboot into my original Ubuntu's tty, and do the install. No? Suggestions?
Edit:
Okay, I can
sudo apt-get install --download-only ubuntu-desktop --reinstall
to get the deb package file onto the live-usb. Now figuring out how to move it to my machine/access it from my other installation...
14.04 16.04 live-usb bios
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
So I was trying to get a CentOS designed application to work on Ubuntu, and played around with some graphics drivers. Well, in my spree of copy and pasting SE suggestions into my terminal, I broke something bad. I no longer have any GUI, and am stuck in tty. Trying to run startx tells me that /usr/bin/X doesn't exist. Awesome. I think I could fix it with
sudo apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
but I can't do this because I have no internet connection from tty, and cannot find any working solution to get wifi connected using wpa_supplicant, or anything else. As far as I understand, recovery mode will be useless too, without an internet connection.
So, instead I installed an Ubuntu 16.04 image onto a USB stick, and booted from there (which is what I'm typing this post from). Here, I have access to all my files, great, and have GUI and internet connection working fine.
Now, is there a way for me to repair my original Ubuntu while having booted from the USB? I don't really know how apt-get works, but I would imagine there should be some way to download the ubuntu-desktop files while I have internet connection, and then reboot into my original Ubuntu's tty, and do the install. No? Suggestions?
Edit:
Okay, I can
sudo apt-get install --download-only ubuntu-desktop --reinstall
to get the deb package file onto the live-usb. Now figuring out how to move it to my machine/access it from my other installation...
14.04 16.04 live-usb bios
14.04 16.04 live-usb bios
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
edited Mar 18 at 22:26
Anonymous
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
asked Mar 18 at 22:17
AnonymousAnonymous
10114
10114
In tty; were you in runlevel 1 (no networking, no gui) & didn't realize it? I realize from your description you believe you've destroyed gui, but I'm wondering if you bypassed issues by putting yourself in single-user mode which caused the no networking
– guiverc
Mar 18 at 22:39
I believe you can mount your main hdd from live system, and put the file there.
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 0:39
@Emmet Hmm, one would think... I can't solve permissions issues
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
@guiverc sorry, I'm not sure what your comment means
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
In live system, you don't need password to invoke root access. Simplysudo suwill grant you a root access
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 5:00
|
show 1 more comment
In tty; were you in runlevel 1 (no networking, no gui) & didn't realize it? I realize from your description you believe you've destroyed gui, but I'm wondering if you bypassed issues by putting yourself in single-user mode which caused the no networking
– guiverc
Mar 18 at 22:39
I believe you can mount your main hdd from live system, and put the file there.
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 0:39
@Emmet Hmm, one would think... I can't solve permissions issues
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
@guiverc sorry, I'm not sure what your comment means
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
In live system, you don't need password to invoke root access. Simplysudo suwill grant you a root access
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 5:00
In tty; were you in runlevel 1 (no networking, no gui) & didn't realize it? I realize from your description you believe you've destroyed gui, but I'm wondering if you bypassed issues by putting yourself in single-user mode which caused the no networking
– guiverc
Mar 18 at 22:39
In tty; were you in runlevel 1 (no networking, no gui) & didn't realize it? I realize from your description you believe you've destroyed gui, but I'm wondering if you bypassed issues by putting yourself in single-user mode which caused the no networking
– guiverc
Mar 18 at 22:39
I believe you can mount your main hdd from live system, and put the file there.
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 0:39
I believe you can mount your main hdd from live system, and put the file there.
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 0:39
@Emmet Hmm, one would think... I can't solve permissions issues
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
@Emmet Hmm, one would think... I can't solve permissions issues
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
@guiverc sorry, I'm not sure what your comment means
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
@guiverc sorry, I'm not sure what your comment means
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
In live system, you don't need password to invoke root access. Simply
sudo su will grant you a root access– Emmet
Mar 19 at 5:00
In live system, you don't need password to invoke root access. Simply
sudo su will grant you a root access– Emmet
Mar 19 at 5:00
|
show 1 more comment
0
active
oldest
votes
StackExchange.ready(function() {
var channelOptions = {
tags: "".split(" "),
id: "89"
};
initTagRenderer("".split(" "), "".split(" "), channelOptions);
StackExchange.using("externalEditor", function() {
// Have to fire editor after snippets, if snippets enabled
if (StackExchange.settings.snippets.snippetsEnabled) {
StackExchange.using("snippets", function() {
createEditor();
});
}
else {
createEditor();
}
});
function createEditor() {
StackExchange.prepareEditor({
heartbeatType: 'answer',
autoActivateHeartbeat: false,
convertImagesToLinks: true,
noModals: true,
showLowRepImageUploadWarning: true,
reputationToPostImages: 10,
bindNavPrevention: true,
postfix: "",
imageUploader: {
brandingHtml: "Powered by u003ca class="icon-imgur-white" href="https://imgur.com/"u003eu003c/au003e",
contentPolicyHtml: "User contributions licensed under u003ca href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/"u003ecc by-sa 3.0 with attribution requiredu003c/au003e u003ca href="https://stackoverflow.com/legal/content-policy"u003e(content policy)u003c/au003e",
allowUrls: true
},
onDemand: true,
discardSelector: ".discard-answer"
,immediatelyShowMarkdownHelp:true
});
}
});
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2faskubuntu.com%2fquestions%2f1126761%2fpossible-to-install-packages-to-a-separate-linux-installation%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
0
active
oldest
votes
0
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
active
oldest
votes
Thanks for contributing an answer to Ask Ubuntu!
- Please be sure to answer the question. Provide details and share your research!
But avoid …
- Asking for help, clarification, or responding to other answers.
- Making statements based on opinion; back them up with references or personal experience.
To learn more, see our tips on writing great answers.
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
StackExchange.ready(
function () {
StackExchange.openid.initPostLogin('.new-post-login', 'https%3a%2f%2faskubuntu.com%2fquestions%2f1126761%2fpossible-to-install-packages-to-a-separate-linux-installation%23new-answer', 'question_page');
}
);
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Sign up or log in
StackExchange.ready(function () {
StackExchange.helpers.onClickDraftSave('#login-link');
});
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Sign up using Google
Sign up using Facebook
Sign up using Email and Password
Post as a guest
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
Required, but never shown
In tty; were you in runlevel 1 (no networking, no gui) & didn't realize it? I realize from your description you believe you've destroyed gui, but I'm wondering if you bypassed issues by putting yourself in single-user mode which caused the no networking
– guiverc
Mar 18 at 22:39
I believe you can mount your main hdd from live system, and put the file there.
– Emmet
Mar 19 at 0:39
@Emmet Hmm, one would think... I can't solve permissions issues
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
@guiverc sorry, I'm not sure what your comment means
– Anonymous
Mar 19 at 4:57
In live system, you don't need password to invoke root access. Simply
sudo suwill grant you a root access– Emmet
Mar 19 at 5:00