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I dont know exactly what happened. When I open my terminal window, it completely cracked. I dont anything editing this window. How to i reinstall gnome-terminal ?

I have tried the below post's solutions, How to reinstall Terminal?

But, it didn't solve my problem.

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It would be great, if give any solutions.

Thanks.

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sprabhakaran
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Read the next paragraph to its end before doing anything!

Switch to a TTY by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1. It also works for F2 to F6. If something is running on TTY1 (used F1), use the next one. Log in and enter sudo apt-get purge gnome-terminal. To get back to the graphical session, press Ctrl + Alt + F7.

You might want to remove the profile files before reinstalling gnome-terminal (by typing in sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal). To do so, delete ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal, if it exist on your system. I have no idea where it is on Ubuntu 15.04, so maybe google this one.

Edit: I figured out the path on Ubuntu 15.04: /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.Terminal.gschema.xml.

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Most likely you ran into this problem after upgrading python2.7 to python3.5, anyway the solution is rather easy: Just open xterm and type the following:

sudo apt-get -f install gnome-terminal

or

sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal && sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal

if it didn't work either ways though, run sudo apt-get remove python3 first and repeat the steps.

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Allan Martin
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open xterm or a tty terminal, and run the following command:

sudo apt-get remove gnome-terminal && sudo apt-get install gnome-terminal
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Uninstalling and reinstalling the application (terminal or xterm) doesn't work because it doesn't create the ~/.bashrc file. The solution is to create/edit this file with appropriate logic. :-) You can find some modified version of these files in extenstion.gnome.org

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