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I have upgraded to Ubuntu 17.10 from 16.04.



Since everything has changed with the that release regarding the desktop manager, I could image there being some trouble.
But it seems, Ubuntu is back to 'a lot of trouble during upgrading' again.



I have the following problems:




  • My closing buttons are not on the right side

  • I do not have a dock visible on the left hand side.

  • I have no dock settings, which is kind of logical, because I have no dock

  • I have no transparency

  • I have still the old ubuntu settings dialog (unity7)



What I have tried




  • Installing gdm3 by hand (sudp apt install ubuntu-session gdm3), which changed the login screen, but leaves the desktop etc. broken as described

  • I have purged unity8, which somehow brought ubuntu-system-settings over me, which I have also purged

  • Changing the used manager on the login screen, which works as far as it changes the desktop from unity8 to gnome or gnome on wayland.



Can I somehow trigger the repair of the Ubuntu installation? I figure it is broken somehow? Or did it just ignore some packages, because there were packages installed for that purpose already?


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Answer is simple: I had Ubuntu 17.04 installed, which was Ubuntu's safest update way apparently.



Ubuntu does not seem to upgrade from 16.04 directly to the newest release.



It works all fine now after another upgrade to from 17.04 to 17.10.



If you are nevertheless stuck in a situation where your upgrade did not go as planned, I suggest you have look at the Ubuntu manifest file for your version of Ubuntu. It contains all the packages that SHOULD be installed with a fresh installation and might help you to figure out which ones are missing for you or which ones you could trigger a reconfigure for.
You can find a good answer for that here: How do I list the default installed packages?


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