Condobloke
Well-Known Member
It may be a good time to make one.....
That command I entered above (sudo apt-get install synaptic.) does not install or reinstall, because Synaptic cannot be removed.
The only way to completely remove and reinstall is to do that with the entire OS
That command will hopefully find there are some 'bits' missing
It certainly will not do any harm. I ran on my own pc (LM21.3) with no harmful effect
Whichever decision you make, I would definitely put a backup in place, saved to an external drive.
I can recommend Rescuezilla.
You can read about on our site here : https://www.linux.org/threads/rescuezilla-system-recovery-tools.48828/
or/and
Easy disk cloning and imaging | Rescuezilla (Clonezilla GUI)
Free bare metal restore solution with graphical interface on a live CD. Point-and-click to backup and restore an entire computer. Bare metal disaster recovery restores all programs, documents and settings. GPL open source.
I use it and have found it to be very reliable.
