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Ubuntu 12.04 no desktop, only terminal

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I installed cinnamon and uninstall unity using a terminal command I found on the web, but I skipped some steps on removing unity thinking it was not important. Now, when I turn on my laptop it will only boot to terminal, it doesn't go to to log in screen to log in to cinnamon desktop or gnome classic. How can I fix this?

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answered 1 Year ago motivengry · Accepted Answer

First try to repair the display manager

start lightdm service, it is maybe stopped
```
sudo service lightdm start
```

reconfigure, In case the first option doesn't work
```
sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm
```

reinstall. The worst case

sudo apt-get install --reinstall lightdm

I suggest you to install Gnome. It's my preferred Desktop Environment

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gnome-shell