Saturday, April 27, 2019

unity - I've completely screwed up my computer by removing compiz then purging dconf*, is there any way to salvage the situation?

I removed compiz to reinstall it, then I couldn't reset it because dconf couldn't get a connection and nothing else was working, so in my frustration I decided to purge dconf* and reinstall it all, but by doing that I completely wrecked ubuntu.


My desktop is an unresponsive black screen with a mouse, and I'm trying to somehow get out of this using a tty terminal. Nautilus, unity, and pretty much everything else doesn't exist anymore,


I can't use apt-get for anything because I get a whole mess of errors along the lines of:


Failed to fetch ..... Could not resolve 'archive.ubuntu.com'

Is there anything I can do to save my documents and maybe restore my operating system to something functional?

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