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Installing the 64 bit Anki deb file (v2.0.42) on my Dell Inspiron 5423, running Ubuntu 14.04 or Ubuntu 16.04, seems to break the desktop (details and photo below). I have only been able to fix the problem by reinstalling Ubuntu.

Why is this happening? How can I fix this problem without having to reinstall Ubuntu? Ideally, how can I get Anki v2.0.42 working on my laptop?

The cleanest example of this problem:

  • Format the / partition, I install Ubuntu 16.04 and update/upgrade
  • Download the Anki deb file from https://apps.ankiweb.net/
  • Eextract it and install it as described on the webpage (ultimately running sudo make install)
  • This causes my Unity desktop to be visually corrupted and forces a restart
  • On booting I am presented with the login screen, when I attempt to login I see a visual corruption of the login screen (photo below) and then the login screen shows again

Corrupted login screen

This problem has happened both times I've install it on Ubuntu 16.04. I was also running Ubuntu 14.04 and encountered the same issue when I installed Anki v2.0.42 there.

Looking at the Makefile I am wondering about the xdg-mime lines. Could these be the root cause? What do they do?

Running sudo make uninstall or the following commands manually does not fix the problem: xdg-mime uninstall /usr/local/share/mime/packages/anki.xml -xdg-mime uninstall /usr/local/share/mime/packages/anki.xml

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I have the exact same problem. The login in screen even looks the same.

I also could not solve without a fresh install. I can confirm however that variations of purging, updating, changing nvidia and nouveau drivers (after reaching the login screen and then doing Ctrl+Alt+F1 to open a terminal) does not work.

After digging around the github repo I found this commit though. Which could suggest that the problem is something to do with the mesa driver.

I would have commented instead of answering but I don't have enough rep and this program just wasted a day of my life thus I want to help others not do the same.

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