Deleted terminal and nothing is working

Question

I was randomly looking at how to tweet from terminal and downloaded https://github.com/orakaro/rainbowstream in their readme I followed quick install. Then while removing it I accidentally ran sudo apt-get remove python-dev libjpeg-dev libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev zlib1g-dev Soon did I realise what I had done it was too late. The terminal had been deleted I panicked and I reastarted the laptop and it had windows+ubuntu on dual boot .. now in the bootloader menu only ubuntu and ubuntu advance options is showing, when I try to open ubuntu it recursively keeps asking me my username and password. And I can't even log into windows anymore. What can I do to get out of this mess? I guess I'm screwed

Answer 1

1. At the graphical login screen, use CTRL+ALT+F3 to switch to a tty (text only) terminal.

2. Login to the tty using your normal username/password

3. Test your network connectivity: ping -c4 8.8.8.8.

   • You should get a result 4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss. If not, see How to connect to wifi using just the terminal?

4. Restore your Desktop with sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop

5. When the install completes, reboot: sudo reboot now