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sudo apt-get remove tor.

I run the above command yes with . and it showed me do you want to uninstall tor and its components of 973mb and i clicked yes then half way down i realized tor cant be worth that amount so I pressed ctrl+z, and now i cannot see Google Chrome App Store and some other apps.

How can I fix it?

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following output of the command which i pressed .

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You're lucky, apt-get / apt writes a log at /var/log/apt/term.log.

So you can find all your removed packages and reinstall them.

As you pressed Ctrl+Z, apt-get is a stopped process in the brackground. So, frst of all, you should properly end apt-get. Simply run fg and wait until apt-get is done (Yes that will finish removing the packages, but we will be able to get them back).

For others that might find this answer: If you pressed Ctrl+C instead, you might need to run sudo apt install -f to fix unfinished removals etc.

Then, to get back your packages:

  1. Find out the exact log time

    # If it just happened:
apt_date=$(sudo grep 'Log started' /var/log/apt/term.log | tail -n1)

# or find manually ...
sudo less /var/log/apt/term.log
# ... and set the result as variable, we need in the next step.
apt_date="Log started: 2019-08-26  16:26:27"

  2. Get all removed packages and reinstall them:

    # Get all removed packages for this date and reinstall them:
sudo sed -n "/${apt_date}/,/Log ended/p" /var/log/apt/term.log \
| awk '/^Removing/{print $2}' \
| xargs -r sudo apt install
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