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I purged the xserver-xorg package and now when i start my laptop it shows a black screen only saying:

overlayfs: missing ‘lowerdir’

I remember when I purged the package it said that it would delete 4 packages. IIRC, two of them were kubuntu-desktop and xserver-xorg. The third being something like sdm and the last I can’t remember.

I have tried going into recovery mode at boot and repairing and it installed 4 packages, but one of them was thunderbird which I am sure wasn’t one of the packages I deleted. So it seems like I am missing one.

What do I do?

I just installed Kubuntu 21.10, and I’m very new to it all, so I hope you can help me.

Edit

I went in to boot recovery mode and chose the dpkg option. It installed some packages includen kubuntu-desktop, but it still didn't work.

I had to sudo apt install sddm, and then after i rebooted it all worked again.

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Boot back into your recovery prompt, and reinstall kubuntu-desktop, as

sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop

This is a small metapackage configure to depend on all packages deemed essential for a functioning Kubuntu desktop. Having removed that xserver-xorg packages should have removed that metapackage as well. Reinstalling it should pull back in any critical package that is missing.

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Start by booting into the recovery mode.

After you are in a root shell, Run the below command:

apt install kubuntu-desktop

Information regarding the package can be find here.

If the above didn't worked for you, then run:

apt install --reinstall kubuntu-desktop^

The ^ indicates task package.

You can also install other desktop environments.

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