While installing new NVIDIA drivers I had them complaining about Nouveau being active and not installing, and having previously made an alias for removing things I removed nouveau, but I forgot I used "sudo apt purge" instead of "sudo apt remove" in the alias, which in turn nuked my desktop environment.
Normally I'd just back-up my data and reinstall the system from live USB, but the thing is I'm working on it remotely, and now I just have access to the terminal using SSH (my machine is running headless with NoMachine server, that's how I mostly dealt with GUI apps when needed).
Is there any way of recreating the Cinnamon desktop environment with just the terminal?
inxi -Fxz output:
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jakobsenserver@jakobsenServer:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-56-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0 Console: pty pts/0
Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: Z170-P v: Rev X.0x serial: <superuser required>
UEFI-[Legacy]: American Megatrends v: 3805 date: 05/16/2018
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-6600K bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S rev: 3 cache:
L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4300 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 bogomips: 27999
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP106 [GeForce GTX 1060 6GB] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nvidia v: 520.61.05
bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.3 with: Xwayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,nvidia,vesa gpu: nvidia tty: 173x36
Message: GL data unavailable in console. Try -G --display
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 100 Series/C230 Series Family HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3
Device-2: NVIDIA GP106 High Definition Audio vendor: eVga.com. driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-56-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASUSTeK PRIME B450M-A
driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: ztasxyuzbv state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 256.17 GiB used: 164.57 GiB (64.2%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Crucial model: CT275MX300SSD1 size: 256.17 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 250.6 GiB used: 164.57 GiB (65.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 511 MiB used: 4 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 12 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nvidia temp: 45 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 164 Uptime: 34m Memory: 15.57 GiB used: 901.1 MiB (5.7%) Init: systemd runlevel: 5
Compilers: gcc: 11.3.0 Packages: 3293 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.16 inxi: 3.3.13