This all started because I needed gcc-arm-none-eabi 13 for a project; apparently it's not compatible with the version of Mint I was using, but I didn't know that at the time. Since I had held off on upgrading for a while, I needed to get Virginia before getting to ver 22; I did just that and upon discovering apt still wouldn't grab the right version of arm-none, went to synaptic and grabbed some public keys I was missing. The latest package was now visible, but something was very weird about it; it wanted to remove a bunch of seemingly unrelated packages........including Cinnamon. I stupidly tried to install it anyways and found that several programs like the update manager were now missing. I panicked and rebooted my computer, now I'm stuck at the bare terminal screen with no Cinnamon. I think the only way to fix this is with a clean install, but I've got important data that needs to be backed up first and mintbackup keeps segfaulting so I can't use it. I don't have an up-to-date Timeshift snapshot either......what do I do?
#Botched my desktop (No Cinnamon)
pearl plank
heavy panther
boot a live USB of Mint, and from there transfer off the files you need to external storage.
lean bolt
boot a live USB of Mint, and from there transfer off the files you need to exter...
So we can transfer important drivers from USB mint live session? If some of those got curropt or deleted in our local machine?
heavy panther
drivers?
that's way above and beyond.
I was talking about rescueing data, and exporting it
I mean you could replace a specific system file if you know precisely where it should go, and its precise name
lean bolt
Alright!
fair sand
This all started because I needed gcc-arm-none-eabi 13 for a project; apparently...
Try installing the Cinnamon desktop
If it deleted it, you can try reinstalling it through sudo apt install cinnamon
It should give you everything required to start it up
If it didn't deleted lightdm, you can try reinstalling it too
graceful zephyr
yee
install cinnamon and lightdm+whatever flavor of greeter you want and do a systemctl start on both
then reboot and boot into the DE
ez fix
heavy panther
first got to get to a logged in prompt.
might be able to from GRUB screen if u press C for command prompt
pearl plank
I had tried that several times and it wouldn't work because of dependancies that also couldn't be installed. I just ended up figuring out how to force load Backup Tool, grabbed everything and then clean installed Mint 22
heavy panther
oh ok.