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Okay, so, this question may have been asked before, but I really need help.

I ran sudo aptitudeto find a specific package that I wanted to delete. I pressed "Install/Remove Pkgs" and there was a section of packages that were to be removed because they were "no longer used". So, I did a noobish move and pressed "g" to remove these seemingly unused packages.

The menu closed and the terminal processes began, I watched. I started seeing programs that were obviously being used by me. So, I hurried up and exited terminal to stop the process.

A few moments later, two programs "Puddle tag" and the Software Center on my dock became grayed (they were open at the time) and disappeared. A handful of used/needed programs seemed to be uninstalled. And I am now at a lost of what to do. But I have a little hope.

I went to the history log and it has everything that was uninstalled [which was a crap load of things] thankfully. Is there a way to batch download/install all of these back onto my computer with this information? I'm assuming it's impossible, but is it possible? There is no way I can see myself doing all of this one at a time, it's way too much. Oh, and at the end of the log, there was an error

Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Aric
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Try this:

Open a terminal,

Press Ctrl+Alt+T

Run it:

exec sudo -i
dpkg --configure -a
apt-get -f install
apt-get -m install
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install --reinstall ubuntu-desktop
apt-get autoremove
apt-get clean
kyodake
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